Citation Sort Order and Navigation

Are you interested in finding highly cited articles? If so then the new features in UKPMC will be of value to you. Search results can now be sorted by the number of times articles have been cited.

Each search result is now shown with a count of the number of articles citing that record. If you click on the count, this will display the citing articles, which themselves can be sorted by citation count. The same functionality is also available under the "Citations" tab when viewing an abstract. As always your feedback on the new features is welcome.

Introducing UKPMC Labs

UKPMC Labs is a new component of the UKPMC website, which will showcase novel applications based on UKPMC content.

The first application to be featured on the Labs website is EvidenceFinder, an application that surfaces "facts" based on a user's search terms from full text articles.

The user is presented with a list of questions based on the search terms. Selecting a question refines the search results, and displays the specific evidence from the full text pertinent to that question. All evidential sentences from a given article can be also be browsed via the "Extracts from full text” tab. EvidenceFinder is built by NaCTeM, University of Manchester.

A good example of the power of this tool can be seen by searching for 'malaria' and selecting the "What causes Malaria?" question.

UKPMC Labs also includes Whatizit, built by the EBI. Whatizit is used in the main UKPMC web service to identify biological terms of interest.

There is now a link from the UKPMC homepage to Labs. We welcome Feedback on Labs-featured applications. Please tell us what you think!

Open Access, UKPMC and PubMed: how are we doing?

The graphic above shows articles available in UK PubMed Central (UKPMC) - read-only articles: green; Open Access articles: blue - compared to the number of abstracts in PubMed.

For articles published in 2010, using the ~925K articles in PubMed published in 2010 as 100%, UKPMC is about 18% of the size of PubMed, with Open Access articles around 7%.

A key factor to maintain this growth will be for the research community to improve compliance with the UKPMC Funder mandates, to ensure all articles resulting from those funds can be found in UKPMC.

Jo McEntyre
EBI/UKPMC

SpringerPlus -- new OA journal from Springer

SpringerPlus, the new Open Access journal from Springer (and based on the PLoS One model) is now accepting manuscripts from all disciplines of science.  


The journal will accept manuscripts describing original research as well as case descriptions and methods.  The submission of data reports and large datasets is actively encouraged.


All articles accepted for publication will be published under the Creative Commons, Attribution (CC-BY) only licence, and be deposited by the publisher in PubMed Central/UKPMC.  As such this journal is fully compliant with the policies of the Wellcome Trust and the other members of the UKPMC Funders Group.

Article Process Fess (APC's) are currently set at £700/$1085

Editorial team announced for ‘eLife’, the new open access journal to be launched next year

The senior editorial team is today announced for ‘eLife’, the new top-tier, open access research journal to be launched next year with the support of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Max Planck Society and the Wellcome Trust.

Read the press release on the Wellcome Trust website.

Two reports from the UK Open Access Implementation Group (OAIG)

Yesterday the UK OAIG released research reporting on the benefits of open access to commercial companies and findings from a JISC Collections consultation on the practicalities of paying for open access publication.

Links
Benefits to the Private Sector of Open Access to Higher Education and Scholarly Research
Open Access Fees Report

OAIG press release (24 October)

Open Biology - a new open access journal

Today is the official launch of the Royal Society's first wholly open access and online journal - Open Biology.

The new journal is publishing research in cell biology, developmental and structural biology, molecular biology, biochemistry, neuroscience, immunology, microbiology and genetics. It is overseen by a team of academic Subject Editors with support by an international Editorial Board. Professor David Glover FRS, Cambridge University has been appointed Editor-in-Chief.

Open Biology aims to have a turnaround time of 4 weeks from article submission to first decision.

Read more on the journal website.