Europe PMC is a database of life science publications and preprints. Articles in Europe PMC are enriched with additional resources, such as author, funding and affiliation information, citations and links to data, peer reviews and more.

In this webinar, we will explain how to programmatically access publications and related information using the Europe PMC Articles RESTful API. Michael Parkin, Data Scientist at Europe PMC, will demonstrate how to access the API using the browser and provide some scripting examples in Python/R. He will outline different API methods, rules for filtering and pagination, as well as output formats. Following on, Antonio Campello, Senior Data Scientist at the Wellcome Trust, will explain how Wellcome uses Europe PMC APIs to gain insights into the outputs of the research they fund. He will discuss several use cases, including charting Wellcome’s research portfolio, developing novel technologies to link grants to academic publications, and tracking which grants have been influential to the COVID-19 literature.

Additional reading:

• Linking academic publications to grants with machine learning
• Which research fields have emerged in the last years? A machine learning approach

Who is this course for?

This webinar is for users interested in exploring programmatic approaches to access publications and preprints, as well as related metadata. It will also be of interest to experienced API users who want to learn more about funding portfolio analysis. Some prior knowledge of programmatic access is recommended.

Outcomes

By the end of the webinar you will be able to:

• Access the Europe PMC API
• Describe the structure of the Europe PMC API
• Identify suitable API endpoints to extract data types of interest
• Make literature searches programmatically
• Interpret the RESTful webservice output
• Know where to find help and documentation

DOI: 10.6019/TOL.EuropePMC_REST-w.2021.00001.1

This webinar took place on 24 November 2021. Please click the 'Watch video' button to view the recording.