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'Storing PubMed leidt tot onrust'

"vrees dat de site was verwijderd door de Trump-regering"

"Dat bleek niet het geval. Niettemin zegt de Nederlandse software-expert Bert Hubert in Nature dat er ‘een heel serieus onderzoek’ zou moeten komen naar hoe dit heeft kunnen gebeuren en waarom het twee dagen heeft geduurd om het probleem te verhelpen, ‘want dit is wereldwijd kritieke infrastructuur’."

"PubMed-storingen zouden bovendien best vaker kunnen voorkomen als NCBI-medewerkers met de juiste expertise om de service te onderhouden hun baan verliezen als onderdeel van de wijdverbreide robuuste reductie in het aantal ambtenaren bij federale overheidsinstanties.

Er is een back-up, die heet Europe PMC en is onderdeel van het European Molecular Biology Laboratory's European Bioinformatics Institute, gevestigd in Hinxton, VK. Dat beschikt over een kopie van de gehele PubMed-database."

medischcontact.nl/actueel/laat

#gezondheid #zorg #onderzoek #science #PubMed #NCBI #EuropePMC

@bert_hubert

www.medischcontact.nlStoring PubMed leidt tot onrustEen tijdelijke storing van PubMed leidde in het weekend van 1 maart tot onrust onder artsen en biomedische wetenschappers. Omdat de database wordt onderhouden door het Amerikaanse National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), onderdeel van National Institutes of Health (NIH), rees bij sommigen even de vrees dat de site was verwijderd door de Trump-regering.
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Now, if is taken offline entirely, that would suck, we would probably all head over to (we should) and EuropePMC would have to make a few adaptations, mirroring is not going to be enough anymore, they'll have to take the lead.

Replied to Kate Nyhan

Wow, I love this feature. Thanks for sharing, @kdnyhan

I can even tell #EuropePMC which day to send the alert (to protect #workLifeBalance by getting work emails on the weekend — looking at you #googlescholar).

And there's an option to have the abstract included in the email alert, saving me unnecessary trips to the online paper to see if the methods are appropriate for the kinds of questions that interest me!

So cool! 👏

Impressive to see all the efforts #EuropePMC is making to offer high-quality indexing of preprints. This is so important! doi.org/10.1101/2024.04.19.590

Still a lot of work to do to further strengthen the preprint infrastructure ecosystem, e.g. to improve metadata availability: "there is a lot of variability in scope of metadata deposited by preprint servers to @crossref"

See also my 2023 blog post with @neesjanvaneck about preprint indexing in different databases doi.org/10.54900/fk7p22x-xydne.

@ASAPbio

Last year @neesjanvaneck and I made recommendations for improving the indexing of preprints in bibliographic databases upstream.force11.org/the-prepr.

Great to see that #EuropePMC is making important progress in realizing one of the recommendations ("Recommendation 4: Provide links between preprints and peer reviews") blog.europepmc.org/2024/01/dis!

@ASAPbio

The preprint revolution - Implications for bibliographic databases upstream.force11.org/the-prepr

Bibliographic databases are increasingly recognizing importance of preprints. How do they index preprints?

@neesjanvaneck and I offer 6 recommendations for preprint indexing. We show to what extent #Dimensions, #EuropePMC, #Lens, #Scopus and #WebOfScience meet these recommendations.

Improving preprint indexing requires joint action by many players in scholarly publishing infrastructure ecosystem!

@cwts