UKPMC: a full text article resource for the life sciences

UK PubMed Central (UKPMC) is a full-text article database that extends the functionality of the original PubMed Central (PMC) repository. The UKPMC project was launched as the first ‘mirror’ site to PMC, which in analogy to the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration, aims to provide international preservation of the open and free-access biomedical literature. UKPMC (http:// ukpmc.ac.uk) has undergone considerable development since its inception in 2007 and now includes both a UKPMC and PubMed search, as well as access to other records such as Agricola, Patents and recent biomedical theses. UKPMC also differs Med/PMC in that the full text and abstract information can be searched in an integrated manner from one input box. Furthermore, UKPMC contains ‘Cited By’ information as an alternative way to navigate the literature and has incorporated text-mining approaches to semantically enrich content and integrate it with related database resources. Finally, UKPMC al...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2011
• Where: NAR
• Authors: Johanna R. McEntyre, Sophia Ananiadou, Stephen Andrews, William J. Black, Richard Boulderstone, Paula Buttery, David Chaplin, Sandeepreddy Chevuru, Norman Cobley, Lee-Ann Coleman, Paul Davey, Bharti Gupta, Lesley Haji-Gholam, Craig Hawkins, Alan Horne, Simon J. Hubbard, Jee-Hyub Kim, Ian Lewin, Vic Lyte, Ross MacIntyre, Sami Mansoor, Linda Mason, John McNaught, Elizabeth Newbold, Chikashi Nobata, Ernest Ong, Sharmila Pillai, Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann, Heather Rosie, Rob Rowbotham, C. J. Rupp, Peter Stoehr, Philip Vaughan
• Keywords: International Nucleotide Sequence, International Nucleotide Sequence Database, NAR 2011, Nucleotide Sequence Database