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Want to search for different word variations easily?
Then use a wildcard → *

🔍 Searching neuron* finds neuron, neurone, neuronal - all words that start with neuron

🔍 Searching vaccin* finds vaccine, vaccines, vaccinated - all words that start with vaccin
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March 31, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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It’s #EPMCTopTips Tuesday! 🧪

Hunting for the how in a paper, not just the what?

Use METHODS: in your Europe PMC search to find keywords only in the Methods section!
Perfect for tracking down protocols, techniques, and experimental details.

Give it a go: europepmc.org/search?query...

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June 3, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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🔍 #EPMCTopTips Tuesdays! 🧪

Getting too many search results?
Level up with #EuropePMC search syntax!

🎯 Try:
• TITLE: → keyword only in the title
• AUTHOR: → papers by author
•HAS_PDF:Y → papers with PDF

Explore more: europepmc.org/searchsyntax
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May 20, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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🔍 #EPMCTopTips Tuesdays!

Tired of hopping between #preprint servers?
Search over 30 preprint servers all in one place with #EuropePMC!

We’ve got preprints from bioRxiv, medRxiv, Research square and more searchable in one go!
Check out the full list 👉 europepmc.org/Preprints#pr...
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April 29, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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Remember quotation marks matter!

✅ Single words? No quotes needed

✅ Phrases? Use quotes to keep words together
"chicken pox" → Finds the exact phrase

❌ Without quotes? Each word is searched separately
chicken pox → Finds chicken AND pox anywhere, not necessarily together
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April 2, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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🔎 Struggling to find the right papers on #EuropePMC ?🧪
We’ve shared helpful tips - now, we want to hear from you!

💡 What’s tricky about searching? Drop your questions below and we’ll answer them as part of our ongoing #EPMCTopTips series every Tuesday!
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April 4, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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It’s time for #EPMCTopTips Tuesdays!

Looking for free to read full text articles?🔓

#EuropePMC gives you access to over 21 million full text articles to read for free! 🧪

📄10.6M free full text articles in Europe PMC
🔗10.9M articles with links to free legal copies

#AcademicSky #Medlib #PhDSky
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April 8, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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Struggling to search hyphenated words? 😕

Searching non-vaccinated (no quotes) returns results where non and vaccinated appear separately, e.g, vaccinated non-infected individuals

💡Use quotation marks → "non-vaccinated" to only find the hyphenated phrase

#AcademicSky #Medlib #PhDSky #EPMCTopTips
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🔎 Struggling to search exact phrases?

Searching gene therapy (no quotes) returns results where gene and therapy appear separately, e.g, Gene regulation in cancer therapy

💡Use quotation marks for exact matches → "gene therapy" only finds the full phrase!

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March 28, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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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...
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July 1, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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🔎 Did you know #EuropePMC searches for key terms in the abstract and full text BUT you can control that?🧪

Focus your search using:
📌 TITLE: → Terms only in titles
📌 ABSTRACT: → Terms only in abstracts
📌 TITLE_ABS: → Terms in both titles and abstracts

#AcademicSky #Medlib #PhDSky #EPMCTopTips
Screenshot of the syntax explanation on EPMC website. TITLE: searches for a term or terms in publication titles for example TITLE:aspirin, TITLE:"protein knowledgebase". ABSTRACT: searches for a term or terms in publication abstracts for example ABSTRACT:malaria, ABSTRACT:"chicken pox". TITLR_ABS: searches for a term or terms in publication titles and abstracts for example TITLE_ABS:blood, TITLE_ABS:"african swine fever"
April 2, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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🔎 Struggling to search exact phrases?

Searching gene therapy (no quotes) returns results where gene and therapy appear separately, e.g, Gene regulation in cancer therapy

💡Use quotation marks for exact matches → "gene therapy" only finds the full phrase!

#AcademicSky #Medlib #PhDSky #EPMCTopTips
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March 27, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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It’s #EPMCTopTips Tuesday!
Got questions about #APIs, data mining, or programmatic access to #EuropePMC?

🧑‍💻 Say hello to your new best friend, the Europe PMC Developer Forum!

Get help from our #dev team and share ideas with the community here: groups.google.com/a/ebi.ac.uk/...

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June 17, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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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 🧪
Screenshot of the Europe PMC homepage showing a central search bar for life sciences literature, with over 47 million research outputs. Below the search bar are three feature panels highlighting Europe PMC's focuses which are “Innovative features,” “Comprehensive search,” and “Trusted partnerships,” highlighting search tools, global literature coverage, and partnerships including PubMed Central and ELIXIR.
December 17, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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🔍 #EPMCTopTips Tuesdays! 🧪

Swamped with search results? Let’s fix that:
✅ Use filters e.g. article type or date range
✅ Use Boolean operators e.g. NOT to ditch keywords you don't want

Need a step-by-step? Check out Protocol 5 in our paper: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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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 PubMed Central (Europe PMC), a partner of PubMed Central…
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April 22, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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It’s #EPMCTopTips Tuesday! 🧪

Building a bibliography giving you a headache? 🤯 Europe PMC’s got your back!

Check out:
📚 References - what the paper builds on
🔁 Citations - who’s building on the paper
🔍Similar article - related reads to go deeper

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Screenshot of a Europe PMC article page titled "Protein measurement with the Folin phenol reagent." The left-hand navigation menu highlights three options in an orange box: “References,” “Citations & impact,” and “Similar Articles.” These sections help users explore related content and build bibliographies.
May 27, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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It’s #EPMCTopTips Tuesday! 🧪

Doing science at scale? #EuropePMC has your back.

Our Articles RESTful #API lets you let you query, retrieve, and reuse publication data for over 33 million publications!

Try it out here 👉 europepmc.org/RestfulWebSe...

#OpenAccess #PhDSky #MedSky
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June 10, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Confused by Boolean search?😕

🔹AND – Returns content with both terms. Content with only one term is excluded.

🔹OR – Expands results to include content with either term or both.

🔹NOT – Returns content with one term while excluding the other. Narrows search.
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Image demonstrating how a boolean search works. If you search A AND B the search will return content that contain both A and B. Content with only A or only B will not be included. If you search A OR B the search will return content that contain either A or B or both A and B. This expands your search results. If you search A NOT B then the search will return content that contains A in the absence of B, any content mentioning B will be excluded. This narrows your search results.
March 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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🔎 Looking for papers by a specific researcher on #EuropePMC? 🧐

Use the AUTH field to search by surname (and optionally initials):

AUTH:"Tirunagari S" → Finds papers by Tirunagari S

Try AUTH field search here: europepmc.org/search?query...

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April 1, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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🔍 #EPMCTopTips Tuesdays! 🧪
Sick of retyping the same search every time?
Save your searches in #EuropePMC! 🎉

✅ Keep your favourite searches handy
✅ Stay on top of the latest papers
✅ Save time for the fun stuff (like actually reading them)

Sign in, save it, sorted. 💪
#PhDSky #AcademicSky
Screenshot showing the ‘save and create alert” button on the right hand side of the Europe PMC search bar on the main search page, with the ‘save and create alert’ window, where you input search terms in the screenshot the example is “cancer dysregulation” and this displays the current number of results which for this phrase is 127,597. The user can name the alert, choose to receive email updates. If they select yes for email updates they can set frequency (daily, weekly, or monthly) and day of the week to receive the update, and select whether to receive the partial abstract as well as the title, author, and journal.
May 6, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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🔎 Tired of sifting through too many search results on #EuropePMC? 🧪

Get specific results by searching in paper sections:

📌 Find specific lab techniques and materials → METHODS:
📌 Search for out experimental outcomes in results → RESULTS:

#AcademicSky #Medlib #PhDSky #EPMCTopTips #FieldSearch
Alt text: Screenshot of the syntax explanation on EPMC website. METHODS: searches for a term or terms in the methods section of a publication for example METHODS:"yeast two-hybrid" finds articles with phrase "yeast two-hybrid" in the Materials & Methods section. RESULTS: searches for a term or terms in the results section of a publication for example RESULTS:"in vivo" finds articles with phrase "in vivo" in the Results section.
April 3, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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🔎 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
July 22, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Thank you to everyone who voted in our poll! 🙌

Top challenge? Finding open access publications🔓

Over the next few #EPMCTopTips Tuesdays, we’ll share tips to tackle your search hurdles!🧪

Catch up on Tuesday's tip on open access publications: bsky.app/profile/euro...
#AcademicSky #MedLib #PhDSky
Poll results image with the question: “What do you find most challenging when searching for publications?” Results show: Finding open access publications – 45.5% (5 votes), Creating queries – 18.2% (2 votes), Choosing the right keywords – 9.1% (1 vote), Unfamiliarity with available filters – 9.1% (1 vote), Too many results – 9.1% (1 vote), Too few results – 9.1% (1 vote) Poll by @europepmc.org with hashtags: #AcademicSky #Medlib #PhDSky #AcademicChatter.
April 11, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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It’s #EPMCTopTips Tuesdays! 🧪
Drowning in search results on #EuropePMC?

Filters to the rescue:
🔓 Free full text access - freely available articles right now
📚 Type - pick a specific article type
📅 Date - narrow it down by year or range

#AcademicSky #OpenAccess #PhDSky #AcademicChatter
Screenshot of the Europe PMC search filters. Options include: 1. Free full text access with two options a. Full text in Europe PMC (10,630,315) b. Link to free full text (10,912,093). 2. Type with four options: a. Research articles (36,707,282) b. Review articles (3,835,432) c. Preprints (927,867) d. Books & documents (37,418). 3. Date published where there is an interactive date range slider from 1768 to 2027. Also preset options for: The last year (2,290,281), The last 3 years (5,769,023), The last 5 years (9,182,862).
April 15, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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It’s Tuesday… you know what that means 🎉 #EPMCTopTips

Need #OpenAccess articles or #Metadata? We got you!

Download in bulk with #EuropePMC:
• 7M+ OA articles
• 960K+ preprints
• 10M+ article metadata… and more!

Save time & power your research: europepmc.org/downloads
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Bulk downloads - Developers - Europe PMCDownloads - Developers - Europe PMC
Download all the articles in the Open Access set, plus the metadata of all full-text articles in Europe PMC.
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June 24, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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🔍 #EPMCTopTips Tuesdays! 🧪

Need to grab search result citations? We’ve got you!

✅ Select export citations on the search page
✅ Select the number of results
✅ Choose your format (BibTeX, RIS, CSV)
✅ Select download

Boom citations sorted, it really is that easy!
#PhDSky #AcademicSky #OpenAccess
A screenshot of the Europe PMC website showing the "Export citations" feature. On the search page select the “Export citations” link which is highlighted in an orange box. This leads to a pop-up window, which is titled "Export citations" presents two steps. Step 1 allows the user to select citations for export, with options to export from thesearch results, where you fill in a field to determine how many of the first results are exported (up to 50,000 allowed). Step 2 asks the user to select a format, with options including BibTeX (Mendeley and papers accept this), RIS (Endnote, Mendeley, and Refworks accept this), Text (citation), XML (abstracts), XML (open access full text), Excel comma separated (CSV), and ID list. Step 3. Select the download button displayed at the bottom of the pop-up window. A greyed-out "Download" button is visible.
May 13, 2025 at 1:31 PM