#EuroPMC
PUBMED is down. This is disaster !!
We do not have the system and organization to replace it. (EuroPMC is great but not a replacement)
It is crystal clear that we cannot depend on critical systems provided by a single provider.
European reaction has to include science and science infrastructures.
March 2, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Here's the same paper in EuroPMC, which has a mirror of all of Pubmed: europepmc.org/article/MED/... - the USA is not the only place with records
Europe PMCEurope PMC
Europe PMC is an archive of life sciences journal literature.
europepmc.org
March 9, 2025 at 8:23 PM
re: PubMed being DOGE'd / censored - don't see any evidence of this. You can't compare e.g EuroPMC searches with PubMed ones directly (saw @franknorman.bsky.social point this out on LinkedIn). By default EuroPMC searches lots of indexes: if you specify PubMed the numbers are much closer
March 3, 2025 at 12:09 AM
We migrated all PubMed links on HemOnc.org to EuroPMC several weeks ago - looking like a prescient decision! EuroPMC also houses the full free texts when available. @europepmc.org
HemOnc.org - A Hematology Oncology Wiki
HemOnc.org
March 2, 2025 at 8:24 PM
As I recall EuroPMC is a mirror. It will not show new content PubMed is unable to process because of the shutdown
October 3, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Europmc is great but It does not have the agreements with the publishers, workflows and curation of the PMC submission system.
The many novelties and services of EuroPMC are based on the existence & accessibility of PMC from where it gets the majority of the data.
This situation can/should change
March 2, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I panicked when I first saw the notices, but PubMed and clinicaltrials.gov are both still being updated. ~40 HIV-related papers added to PubMed since yesterday. EuroPMC mostly still a mirror according to this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe_...
October 3, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Ce que je craignais arrive, pubmed est mort. Je ne sais pas si c'est une fin définitive, un shutdown temporaire le temps de virer tout ce qui est vu comme woke, ou juste le fait d'avoir viré les gens compétents. En alternative europmc.
March 2, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Thanks for this! Been going to the Europe PMC site as well.
Though I can’t figure out how to get my endnote ref manager to talk to europmc (like it does with pubmed) for easy citation imports.
March 2, 2025 at 10:42 AM
I think it was EuroPMC website. If you register an account with them they have a good help desk.
February 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
#EuroPMC hosted by @emblebi can be an alternative when #PubMed is down, and perhaps will be soon a valid alternative in all cases. The outcome is larger, not exactly matching that of PubMed yet. EuroPMC includes also preprints, books and protocols
europepmc.org
Europe PMCHome - Europe PMC
Europe PMC is an archive of life sciences journal literature.
europepmc.org
March 2, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Good q! I assume the former as it’s “PubMed/MEDLINE” in the EuroPMC interface and the MEDLINE bit has to come from the NLM. But I guess if it came to it you could break out the two bits…
March 3, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I mean, I get it. The scenario's plausible which is scary enough. I wonder if EuroPMC is tweaking any policies about how it handles deletions in the daily snapshots
March 3, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Personnellement je crée des alertes sur les sujets qui m'intéressent sur Pubmed ou EuroPMC, et m'inscrit aux Table of contents des revues majeurs de ma discipline.
Reserchgate est parfois utile aussi pour cela.
February 18, 2026 at 10:05 AM
I was thinking a bit about this. Obviously there EuroPMC, but although copying the data over is one thing, there is also a need to replicate the processes of finding and adding new data.
That needs funding.
March 2, 2025 at 11:19 AM
yep - and it's a mirror rather than redundant, so IIRC if content does not go into PMC in the first place then it doesn't go to EuroPMC
May 15, 2025 at 2:58 PM