Europe PMC

Europe PMC is developed by the EMBL-EBI (European Bioinformatics Institute), an outstation of the EMBL. Europe PMC is governed by an international, independent Scientific Advisory Board that advises the PI of the Europe PMC grant and the Directors of the EMBL-EBI. The Europe PMC Funders are represented by the Funder Committee.

The Europe PMC was originally launched as UKPMC, a UK version of PubMed Central, in 2007. UKPMC aimed to provide a stable, permanent, and free-to-access online digital archive of the full-text, peer-reviewed research publications. UKPMC formed a part of a network of PMC International (PMCI) repositories that included PubMed Central USA and PubMed Central Canada. UKPMC was established by a consortium of UK biomedical research funding bodies, including the Wellcome Trust, Medical Research Council, the Department of Health, Cancer Research UK and the British Heart Foundation to enable researchers to comply with the open access policies of their funders through author manuscript submission. The partner organizations charged with delivering UKPMC were the University of Manchester (Mimas and the National Centre for Text Mining (NaCTeM)), the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBl-EBI) and the British Library. In close collaboration with the NCBI, these partners have developed the website, the search and retrieval system, integrated text-mining-based features, manuscript submission and grant reporting tools. The UKPMC archive was supplemented by the CiteXplore citations database run by EMBL-EBI.

In November 2012 UKPMC was rebranded as Europe PubMed Central (Europe PMC) after three European funders (Telethon Italy, the Austrian Research Fund, and the European Research Council) joined UKPMC. In 2013 CiteXplore was subsumed under Europe PubMed Central. Since April 2016 EMBL-EBI is the sole organisation responsible for developing Europe PMC.