Enabling exploratory search in UK PubMed Central: Enhancing information retrieval for the UK's biomedical and health research community

Abstract

Launched in 2007, UK PubMed Central (UKPMC) was originally released as a “mirror” of the US PubMed Central repository. The feedback from our users and our experience of running the service prompted the organisations comprising UK's principal funders of biomedical and health research to commission a new phase of development with aspirations to build the premier resource for biomedical and health research. This paper summarises the evolution of UKPMC and discusses the exploratory search facilities in the new web interface.