Searching and evaluating publications and preprints using Europe PMC

In the field of life sciences there is a growing need for literature analysis tools that help scientists tackle information overload. Europe PMC is an open access database of over 41 million life science publications and preprints, enriched with supporting data, reviews, protocols, and other relevant resources. Partnered with PubMed Central (PMC) (National Library of Medicine, 2022), Europe PMC is a trusted repository of choice for many life science funders (Europe PMC, 2022b). Europe PMC offers a suite of innovative search tools that allow users to search and evaluate the literature, including finding highly cited articles, preprints with community peer reviews, or papers referencing a proteomics dataset in the figure legend. In addition, Europe PMC utilises text-mining to help researchers identify key terms and find data and evidence in the literature. This ‘Searching and evaluating publications and preprints using Europe PMC’ protocol demonstrates how to carry out more efficient and effective literature searches using the tools provided by Europe PMC. This includes discovering the latest findings on a research topic, following research from a specific author, journal, or preprint server, exploring literature on a new method, expanding your reading list with relevant articles, as well as accessing and evaluating publications and preprints of interest. Basic Protocol 1: Finding articles on a topic of interestBasic Protocol 2: Accessing an articleBasic Protocol 3: Browsing the article Basic Protocol 4: Evaluating the articleBasic Protocol 5: Refining search resultsBasic Protocol 6: Finding research by author Basic Protocol 7: Finding a specific articleBasic Protocol 8: Finding information about a methodology Basic Protocol 9: Finding evidence of biological interactions, relations, and modificationsBasic Protocol 10: Finding data behind publicationBasic Protocol 11: Expanding reading list and building bibliographyBasic Protocol 12: Staying on top of the current literature