How we built a database of preprints – Europe PMC News Blog

"...finding preprints can be like searching for a needle in a haystack. There are over 60 preprint servers in the life sciences alone. Search tools often don’t cover them all and aren’t always built to last. Both Microsoft Academic and Meta pulled the plug in recent years. This made us realise that there was a gap to close and that we were well-positioned to do it. Europe PMC is a database of life science publications. This lends us the technical expertise to gather preprints from different sources – kind of like a Spotify for research outputs. In July 2018, more than 6 years ago, preprints first appeared in Europe PMC alongside journal articles. We have learned a lot of lessons since and are very excited to share these lessons in our recent publication. For the full article, head here: Enabling preprint discovery, evaluation, and analysis with Europe PMC. Below is a short summary."