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Monitor Europe PMC papers with Relaylit

42M+ life science citations, including preprints and full-text open-access papers.

What Europe PMC covers

Europe PMC is the European equivalent of PubMed Central, run by EMBL-EBI. It indexes more than 42 million life-science records — including roughly 7 million open-access full-text articles, 4 million preprints from bioRxiv/medRxiv, patents, clinical guidelines, and grants.

For European biomedical research, preprints, and open-access full-text, Europe PMC has broader coverage than PubMed alone. Relaylit runs every digest against Europe PMC and five other sources so you see preprints days-to-weeks before they appear in PubMed.

How Relaylit uses Europe PMC

Relaylit writes the query syntax for you and merges Europe PMC results with PubMed, arXiv, Crossref, Semantic Scholar, and OpenAlex. Duplicates across sources are removed, and the final list is ranked 0–100 against your brief.

Europe PMC saved search alerts vs Relaylit

Europe PMC saved search alerts

Europe PMC alerts run weekly, use a structured query language, and deliver plain lists without AI ranking or deduplication across databases.

Relaylit

Plain-language brief, not query syntax
Searches Europe PMC + 5 more databases in one pass
Deduplicates across sources
AI relevance score 0–100 per paper
Weekly, biweekly, monthly — or on-demand

Example briefs for Europe PMC

Copy one, tweak it in your profile, get your first digest in minutes.

"Preprints on mRNA vaccine platforms for pandemic preparedness, last 30 days."

"Open-access full-text on CRISPR prime editing in hepatocytes."

"European clinical guidelines on atrial fibrillation published this year."

FAQ

Why Europe PMC and not just PubMed?

Europe PMC includes preprints from bioRxiv, medRxiv, Research Square and several other servers that PubMed does not index. It also stores more full-text open-access copies. For fast-moving fields, preprint coverage matters.

Are preprints included in my Relaylit digest?

Yes. Europe PMC preprints appear alongside peer-reviewed papers, clearly labelled with the source so you can judge evidence level.

How fresh is the data?

Europe PMC updates its index daily. Relaylit hits the live API on every digest generation.

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