As 2025 comes to a close, we would like to thank everyone who has been part of Europe PMC this year. A huge thank you to our funders and partners who make Europe PMC possible, and all of our users whose feedback helps us continually develop new tools and features. Here’s to more discovery in 2026!

Feeling stuck tweaking the same search again and again, but it’s still not quite right? 😫 Our #EPMCTopTips thread shares smart ways to get better results, faster. Reply in the comments with what’s frustrating you about searching, and we’ll tackle it in the new year👇 #PhDSky #AcademicChatter 🧪

Think Europe PMC is just for Europe? 🤔 Europe PMC is built for the global research community. Our platform supports researchers worldwide with free access to find, explore, and reuse life science literature. New to Europe PMC? Learn more in our FAQs 👉 buff.ly/0EL86Cc #PhDSky #AcademicChatter 🧪

Excited about the Lit-OTAR framework but lost in the technical details? We get it, deep learning, NER, and entity normalisation can be a lot to take in! 🤯 If our thread was too jargon-heavy, we’ve got you covered. Check out our plain language blog post: blog.europepmc.org/2024/07/revo...

Preprint adoption continues to grow with over 1 million life science preprints now indexed in @europepmc.org #preprintadvent

A brilliant thread showcasing a must-follow list of organisations quietly powering discovery. A great idea from @openrxiv.bsky.social Join the conversation and reply with any open infrastructure we've missed! #OpenScience #MedLib #PhDsky 🧪

Can we use #AI to revolutionise drug discovery? Meet Lit-OTAR, a deep learning framework built by Europe PMC and @opentargets.org It’s identified >48.5 million unique associations, accelerating the drug discovery process! Read the thread for a paper summary👇 #AI4Science #BioNLP #DrugDiscovery

Why post a preprint instead of waiting for peer review? You get your work out fast, claim research priority, and protect it against plagiarism. Plus, they’re open access! Boosting your visibility and impact. Curious? Learn how preprints can work for you👇 #Preprints #OpenAccess #PhDsky

Did you know you can find over 1 million preprints on Europe PMC? With a single search, you can explore preprints from 34 servers, including #PsyArXiv, alongside peer reviewed journal articles. One platform making over 47 million research outputs searchable in one place! #Preprints #OpenScience

Did you know open science can empower you and your research community? @elife.bsky.social share how to get started, overcome barriers, and join a global community of researchers practising open science. Watch the webinar here: elifesciences.org/inside-elife... #OpenScience #OpenAccess #PhDSky

Finding it confusing licensing your work? @asapbio.bsky.social have created an FAQ covering the basics and commercial uses, supporting you to make an informed choice. #OpenAccess #OpenScience #PhDsky

Did you know literature databases index preprints? In Europe PMC you can discover preprints from 34 different preprint servers alongside peer reviewed research! Since 2018, Europe PMC has made 1 million preprints searchable. #OpenAccess #OpenScience #Preprint

Looking to make your license more restrictive to stop AI from using your research? STOP! Restrictive licenses don’t block AI, but block the community from accessing and building on your work. Learn more below 👇 @creativecommons.bsky.social #OAweek #AcademicChatter #PhDsky 🧪

Who owns our knowledge and who gets to reuse it? Our licence choices define how knowledge is shared and reused. Learn more by watching our full webinar recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr6v... @creativecommons.bsky.social #OAweek #AcademicChatter #PhDsky 🧪

📣 POSI 2.0 is here! Key updates👇 - More governance & finance transparency - Expanded living will - Regular purpose & community value review - New reserve, volunteer, & transition polices - Stronger open data & interoperability focus 👉 openscholarlyinfrastructure.org #OpenScholarlyInfrastructure

Got thoughts about Europe PMC? Of course you do! So tell us what you love, what you hate, or what you wish existed! Take our survey and shape what we do next, we’re listening! 👉 www.surveymonkey.com/r/7PT2S87 #PhDChat #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #MedLibs #Bioinformatics #TextMining #DataScience

Have you seen this??? EMBL-EBI on-demand training now has a chatbot called Ada! Ada allows you to explore materials in a conversational way and supports you to find relevant content when you don't quite know the key words to find it. #PhDChat #AcademicSky #postdoc #AcademicChatter #MedLib 🧪

Check out this Preprint Policy Framework by @asapbio.bsky.social and @creativecommons.bsky.social #MedLib #OpenAccess #Preprint

📅 Reminder! @ukri.org’s webinar on Improving the Open Access Research Information Landscape is tomorrow! 🗣️ Hear from speakers from @oaspa.bsky.social @ebi.embl.org and @theul.bsky.social 👉 Register now: buff.ly/16V4LIv #OpenAccess #OpenResearch #ResearchInfrastructure

Missed our webinar? 🎥 Catch the recording and see expert evidence synthesiser Kate Nyhan demo Europe PMC’s redesigned Advanced search. Now more intuitive than ever! 🔗 Watch here: buff.ly/8ibZ0Ul Perfect for: 🔹 #SystematicReview 🔹 #EvidenceSynthesis 🔹 Librarians & researchers #MedLib #PhDsky

There’s still time to join us and expert evidence synthesiser Kate Nyhan to see how Europe PMC’s Advanced search helps you find exactly what you need. Now more intuitive than ever! 🗓️ Today | 🕒 15:00 BST 🔗 bit.ly/HackingLiter... #SystematicReview #EvidenceSynthesis #MedLib #AcademicChatter #PhDsky

😤 Tired of messy metadata & patchy standards? Join @ukri.org's webinar: Improving the Open Access Research Information Landscape with: • Catriona MacCallum @oaspa.bsky.social • Melissa Harrison @ebi.embl.org • Agustina Martinez-Garcia @theul.bsky.social Register 👉 buff.ly/16V4LIv #OpenAccess

Do you share data or manuscripts and want to boost impact & fuel global discovery? 🌍 Creative Commons licenses help you: ✔️ Retain rights ✔️ Enable reuse & translation ✔️ Reach across borders & disciplines 🎥 Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IBT... @creativecommons.bsky.social #OpenAccess #PhDSky

Search strings slowing you down? 🐢 Europe PMC’s new Advanced search works for you, making complex searches easier and faster than ever. Join our webinar to see it in action👇 🗓️ Aug 15 | 🕒 15:00 BST 🔗 bit.ly/HackingLiter... #SystematicReview #EvidenceSynthesis #MedLib #AcademicChatter #PhDsky

[email protected] and @creativecommons.bsky.social are pleased to announce the launch of the Preprint Policy Framework that aims to align funder and organizational policies, promoting open, reusable, timely, and rigorous research communication. buff.ly/sJyYg1m

Don’t miss this! Expert guest Kate Nyhan, US-UK public health librarian, joins #EuropePMC to show how she uses our new Advanced search to synthesis evidence for systematic reviews fast and accurately! 🗓️ Aug 15 | 🕒 15:00 BST 🔗 bit.ly/HackingLiter... #SystematicReview #EvidenceSynthesis #MedLib

Struggling to find methods, data, or results in the literature? Join our free webinar to see how the redesigned Europe PMC Advanced search helps you find exactly what you need fast! 🗓️ Aug 15 | 🕒 15:00 BST 🔗 bit.ly/HackingLiter... #AcademicChatter #PhDsky #AcademicSky #AcademicWriting 🧪

Have you seen? 👀 The Data Citation Corpus now includes 5.2 million new data citations from Europe PMC! The Data Citations Corpus is a central aggregate of citations to research data across outputs, advancing our understanding of the use and impact of open data. #OpenAccess #OpenData #OpenScience 🧪

Systematic reviewer? Battling syntax quirks and database rules? 🤯 Join us and expert evidence synthesiser, Kate Nyhan, to see how Europe PMC’s new Advanced Search helps you work faster! 🗓️ Aug 15 | 🕒 15:00 BST Register: bit.ly/HackingLiter... #SystematicReview #EvidenceSynthesis #MedLib

Why should AI tools be trained on research papers? Watch a clip from our recent webinar "What happens when you choose closed?" to learn more: youtu.be/cISxc6OCWCE 🧪 #OpenAccess #PhDSky #AcademicChatter

Did you know? The Citations tab shows: 📄 Papers and Reviews citing the structure publication 🔎 Papers and Reviews mentioning the PDB ID 🧬 Figures from open access publications via our integration with @europepmc.org‬ #PDBeBeta #Bioinformatics #Bioinformatics #Biochemistry

🔎 It’s #EPMCTopTips Tuesday! Want to find articles you can reuse or text mine? Use the LICENSE: search field to filter by license type in #EuropePMC! Example: (LICENSE:"CC-BY") → finds articles with a Creative Commons Attribution license, perfect for reuse! 🔓 #OpenAccess #Medlib #PhDSky

Considering a CC BY-NC-ND license to prevent AI training? Due to exceptions AI tools can access copyrighted works. Your license choice only affects commercial and derivative use: translations, educational adaptations, etc. Watch a clip from our recent webinar to learn more: youtu.be/9TvQ8NtsV0c

Databases, like PRIDE, Pfam, & Open Targets rely on CCBY articles to train AI models that can help: - enrich proteomics data - predict protein function - identify drug targets Here is how CCBY license helps: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSiS... @opentargets.org @pride-ebi.bsky.social @pfamdb.bsky.social

Missed our webinar on the use of CC-BY for research and AI? We covered: - What are Creative Commons licenses - Why some funders mandate CC-BY - How @ebi.embl.org databases innovate with CC-BY - How CC-BY impacts AI training Catch up here: youtu.be/vr6vFqo8xKg @creativecommons.bsky.social

Thanks for joining our "What happens when you choose closed?" webinar with @creativecommons.bsky.social and following along with #ChooseOpenWebinar! 🙌 Stay tuned for the recording and slides soon! 🎥 Following us for more on open licensing and research innovation! #MedLib #PhDSky #OpenAccess

Want to stop AI training on your research? Think a CC BY-NC-ND license will help? Think again! @creativecommons.bsky.social says restrictive licenses don’t block AI training but do limit: - rapid dissemination - rigorous review - equitable access #ChooseOpenWebinar for updates 💡 #MedLib #PhDsky

Why should I make my research open?🤷 @creativecommons.bsky.social says: CC BY lets you keep copyright whilst your work can be: • Translated into other languages • Adapted for education • Used on Wikipedia Open research = greater reach and impact! 🌍✨ #ChooseOpenWebinar for updates 💡 #MedLib #PhDsky

Aghhh, what licence should I choose?! 😩 @creativecommons.bsky.social make it simple: CC BY is the least restrictive = maximises reuse & cuts legal hassle CC BY lets others: ✅ Share your work 🔧 Adapt it #OpenLicensing = more innovation 🚀 #ChooseOpenWebinar for updates 💡 #MedLib #PhDsky

Open licenses power discovery! Melissa Harrison shares a @opentargets.org use case: Open Targets identifies and prioritises drug targets using AI to extract gene, drug, and disease mentions and relationships to building drug development evidence #ChooseOpenWebinar for updates 💡 #MedLib #PhDsky

Open licenses power discovery! Melissa Harrison shares a @pfamdb.bsky.social use case: Pfam uses AI to extract information about known protein domains This helps predict protein function & identify potential drug targets! 💊 #ChooseOpenWebinar for live updates 💡 #MedLib #PhDsky #OpenAccess

Open licenses power discovery! Melissa Harrison shares a @pride-ebi.bsky.social use case: PRIDE the #proteomics database for large-scale protein studies uses AI to uncover associated proteomics data & link datasets across databases #ChooseOpenWebinar for live updates 💡 #MedLib #PhDsky #OpenAccess

How does licensing affect innovation? Melissa Harrison from @ebi.embl.org breaks it down with #EuropePMC stats: • 10.8M full text = read only • 7M full text = downloadable by XML • 5.5M full text = open for reuse, including text-mining! #ChooseOpenWebinar for live updates 💡 #MedLib #PhDsky

Katherine Hughes on EMBL’s Open Science Policy: EMBL's policy can serve as a model policy and an example of #OpenScience in practice #ChooseOpenWebinar for live updates 💡 #MedLib #PhDsky @embl.org @acraftylibrarian.bsky.social

🎓 Not all open licences are created equal! Taylor Campbell from @creativecommons.bsky.social broke down key licence types👇 🔓 Most freedom: CC BY ⛔️ Least: CC BY-NC-ND Your licence = your reuse rights. Choose wisely to boost impact & reach! #ChooseOpenWebinar for live updates 💡 #MedLib #PhDsky

📢 What happens when you choose closed? - the webinar has started! We’re diving into how licences shape research reuse, rights & reach including: • CC BY & copyright • AI & licensing • Funder/journal requirements Follow #ChooseOpenWebinar for live updates 💡 @creativecommons.bsky.social

It’s Tuesday #EPMCTopTips 🎉 Stuck on something? We’ve got answers! 💬 Our #EuropePMC Helpdesk team can support you with: • Searching & filters • Manuscript submissions • Grant reporting & more 💬 Drop us a message: [email protected] #OpenAccess #LitSearch #ResearchSupport #medlibs #PhDSky

🚨 Last chance to sign up! 🚨 Why choose CC BY? Don't miss tomorrow’s webinar on open licenses for research and AI. 🗓️ 9 Jul ⏰ 08:00 PT / 15:00 UTC / 16:00 BST 🔗 embl-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #CCBY #OpenScience #AcademicSky

It’s #EPMCTopTips Tuesday! Meet your research sidekick: the #EuropePMC Articles RESTful #API 🧠💻 Access: 📑 33M+ records programmatically 🧬 Database cross-references 📈 Citation counts 🧠 Text-mined terms Get started: europepmc.org/RestfulWebSe... #OpenScience #Bioinformatics #TextMining #DataScience