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EMBL-EBI Literature Services, led by Dr Johanna McEntyre, runs Europe PubMed Central (Europe PMC), a database of the life science literature that covers 26 million abstracts (including PubMed, Agricola and patents) as well as 2.5 million full-text articles, of which about 500 000 are fully Open Access. All the content is free to read on the website. The content in the databases can be searched and read via the Europe PMC website. Programmatic access is provided via SOAP and REST web services. In the case of Open Access articles, these are also available for bulk download by FTP. Europe PMC is supported by 19 European funders of life science research, led by the Wellcome Trust. On top of the core article search and retrieval, Europe PMC layers citation networks, links to underlying databases, and text-mined terms of biological interest. These enrichments are available for browsing and filtering search results on the website and have led to the development of features such as a citation count sort order for results lists and data citation information. The modular web services also give access to these data. As the scientific literature is increasingly linked to data outputs, one of the key work programs of the Literature Services Team is to integrate textual content with databases, in particular with those databases developed at EMBL-EBI, but also more widely through the development of data sharing processes with partner organisations such as OpenAIRE.