October 21, 2025Open Access

Preprints in Europe PMC: reducing friction for discoverability

Key Points

Discoverability of preprints in Europe PMC significantly enhances access to scientific findings, and supports various workflows.
Indexing will facilitate increased visibility of preprints, which aids in grant reporting and proper attribution of citation.
Starting July 2018, Europe PMC will index preprints, potentially transforming how researchers incorporate these works.
This initiative highlights the importance of preprints in the scientific workflow, underscoring their role in knowledge dissemination.

Abstract

From July 2018, the Europe PMC repository will start indexing preprints. Making preprints discoverable through Europe PMC will make the science reported in preprints more widely discoverable and support their inclusion into workflows such as grant reporting, article citing and credit and attribution.

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synapsesocial.com/papers/68f6f7712ea49fe6012ff97d https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.59350/zfb0f-8ac63

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