Over 240 National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) trainees recently attended the 4th Annual meeting at the Midlands Hotel in Manchester (November 30th – December 1st). Despite the freezing temperatures outside, the atmosphere inside was warm, welcoming and friendly. The term ‘trainee’ is probably quite inappropriate, as it evokes the image of fresh young graduates.
At the Wellcome Trust we are always keen to try new ways to promote our open access policy, and the UKPMC repository. Our latest promotional activity involves a huge poster in the rear window (Gower Place) of the Wellcome Trust HQ, in London.
The Wellcome Trust’s Open Access policy has always made it clear that it considers dissemination costs as legitimate research costs and as such provides grantholders with additional funding, through their institutions, to cover open access charges.
The Company of Biologists (COB) – publishers of Development and Journal of Cell Science – has developed an open access (“gold”) option, which meets the requirements of the UKPMC Funders’ Group.
In response to user feedback, the UKPMC search results page now displays all the authors associated with any published article. Prior to this change, the search results page had shown just the first seven authors, with the full set of authors only being visible from the abstract and full-text views.
The January 2011 Nucleic Acids Research Database Issue includes an article by Jo McEntrye and others, that describes the UKPMC service and the developments which have taken place over the last three years.
In October 2006 the Wellcome Trust become the world’s first research funder to develop an open access policy that required the research outputs, that arose from its funding, to be made freely available.
By running a search through UKPMC, then clicking on the RSS feed logo once your search results have been displayed, you can add a search as feeds in a bookmark to your browser.
As part of the text-mining work being undertaken by European Bioinformatics Institutue [EBI] and The National Centre for Text Mining [NaCTeM], it is now possible to get a list of all chemicals cited in a full-text article at UKPMC and link through to Chemical Entities of Biological Interest (ChEBI) database for further information.
The Open Access subset of UKPMC articles – which as of October 7th 2010 contains around 195,000 full-text articles – can be downloaded via: http://ukpmc.ac.uk/ftp/oa The content are available as 20 zipped files, named according to the PMCID range that each zipped file contains. The files are updated weekly.
UKPMC users can now view counts and link through to Web of Science citation data for articles available via the UKPMC website.