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A (Very) Quick OverviewPaul Davey (paul.davey@bl.uk)Ernie Ong (ernest.ong@bl.uk)Thu 24 Sep 2009
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Overview of service and its benefits
Service for administrators, research support staff, funding organisations(and researchers/research teams)
Building tools to bring greater transparency to management ofresearch grants
Tracking impact and reporting outcomes to fundersService and tools for biomedical / health researchers
Access
: a means to easily search and retrieve abstracts, full text,and PDF files from one place
Gap filling
: providing links to additional content, such as theses,reviews, clinical guidelines
Real innovation
: providing quality assured, relevant links to othersources of relevant information found in biological databases
Usability and functionality
: developing features that researchersare asking for
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Overview: more on grant management tools and the service
Facilitate management of UKPMC-related grants
First and only centralised database of all grants awarded by eightprincipal fundersof biomedical and health research in the UK
Significant number of PMC papers without grant information
Aim to demonstrate value to researchers for data-entry effort
Provide benefits to researcher as end-user in “virtuous cycle”
Access to diverse range of journal and non-journal content
PubMed citations, biological patents, clinical guidelines
Access to biological databases by exploiting the scientific literature
Entity identification and summary; link to EBI & NCBI databases
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