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PSA: Europe PubMed Central exists.

"Europe PMC provides comprehensive access to life sciences literature from trusted sources. It's available to anyone, anywhere for free. With Europe PMC you can search and read 45.6 million publications [10.5 full texts], prereprints and other documents enriched with links to supporting data, reviews, protocols, and other relevant resources."
europepmc.org/

Scope: europepmc.org/Help#sources

Also @SafeguardingResearch got the database of #PubMed

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in reply to Henrik Schönemann

hmm, it doesn't actually have 45.6 million publications - only 10.5 millions with full text. Still useful but you often need to go to the original publisher to read the article.
in reply to El Duvelle

@elduvelle yeah - no 1:1 replacement :/
But at least something.

(You can probably imagine how many times over the last weeks people came panicking with "all will be lost" - this is a) not true, and b) not helpful)

in reply to Josteglitz 🌱💚

@Josteglitz it already does:
"Europe PMC integrates content from a range of sources such as PubMed, PubMed Central (PMC), Agricola, and 34 life science preprint servers"

@SafeguardingResearch

in reply to Henrik Schönemann

@Josteglitz but only the full text subset, right?! I'm having trouble finding clear documentation on that point.
in reply to Andy Jackson

@anj
"Overall, Europe PMC contains more records than both PubMed and PubMed Central (PMC). In brief, Europe PMC contains all of the PubMed abstracts, the vast majority of PMC content, plus additional content including preprints, microPublications, patents, NHS clinical guidelines and Agricola records.
Full text publisher-provided content in PMC is subject to PMC Participation Agreements."
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@Josteglitz @SafeguardingResearch

in reply to Henrik Schönemann

@anj
"Of those whose Participation Agreement pre-dates this [July 2006], most agreed to this wider distribution of content, however some did not which means that approximately 250,000 articles in PMC are not available from Europe PMC; the vast majority of these are back issue articles."
europepmc.org/Help#sources

@Josteglitz @SafeguardingResearch

in reply to Henrik Schönemann

Thank you! I'm writing this up for a public blog post. Is it okay if I directly link to this conversation and credit you?
in reply to Andy Jackson

@anj yes, ofc

I think the first time someone suggested this to me was a few weeks ago by @stefan_hessbrueggen (if I'm not mistaken)