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So I didn't know, but Europe already has a backup of PubMed, the database of biomedical research publications. The US PubMed broke down over the weekend. And here is our alternative: europepmc.org/

@bert_hubert ‘PubMed Central’ and ‘PubMed’ are quite different; the first is a repository for research papers themselves, the second a database of research abstracts that includes an awful lot more. I think this is a back up of the former. Now, I do suspect lots of amazing people have been busy scraping PubMed in case of issues, as it has had a warning on it about heavy traffic a few times recently.

bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦

@clare_hooley both my papers were found by EuroPMC, so I'm good :-)