Europe PMC Team

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[![](https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-TY22v5q6KqU/T__NxXOPXZI/AAAAAAAAADs/4cYPxxHA-mg/s1600/epmc-logo-med.gif){decoding="async"
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[European Research Council](http://erc.europa.eu/) (ERC)  
announced today that it will participate in the [UK PubMed
Central](http://ukpmc.ac.uk/) (UKPMC) open  
access repository service, joining 18 existing UK and European
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ERC becomes the third European funder to join UKPMC, following Telethon
Italy  
and the Austrian Research Fund.  As a  
result of this participation, the existing funders have agreed that the
service  
will be rebranded as '**Europe PubMed Central**' (Europe PMC) by 1
November  
2012.  A key aim of this initiative is to  
extend the repository further and encourage other European funders of
life  
sciences research to make the outputs of the research they fund freely  
available through Europe
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led by the Wellcome Trust, is comprised of Action on Hearing Loss,
Arthritis  
Research UK, Austrian Research Fund (FWF), Biotechnology and
Biological  
Sciences Research Council, Breakthrough Breast Cancer, British Heart  
Foundation, Cancer Research UK, Chief Scientist Office (Scotland),
Dunhill  
Medical Trust, Marie Curie Cancer Care, Medical Research Council, Motor
Neurone  
Disease Association, Multiple Sclerosis Society, Myrovlytis Trust,
National  
Institute for Health Research, Parkinson's UK and Telethon (Italy).  See
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[The European Research Council (ERC) announced today that it will participate in the UK PubMed Central (UKPMC) open access repository service, joining 18 existing UK and European funders[[i]]{style=“font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;”}.The ERC becomes the third European funder to join UKPMC, following Telethon Italy and the Austrian Research Fund.

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European Research Council renews its commitment to open access by joining Europe PubMed Central