1. UK PubMed Central Implementation and Support Rob Rowbotham, British Library rob.rowbotham@bl.uk Ross MacIntyre, MIMAS, The University of Manchester ross.macintyre@manchester.ac.uk

2. What is UKPMC? The UK-version of PubMed Central Offers the PubMed Central collection of ~1,000,000 full-text life science articles, freely available online irrespective of library holdings US and UKPMC mirror each others content

3. Who provides UKPMC? The British Library together with the University of Manchester and the European Bioinformatics Institute The service is hosted by MIMAS, the national academic data centre

4. Who funds UKPMC? The development of UKPMC is funded by principal funders of biomedical research in the UK

5. Overview UKPMC Implementation UKPMC Manuscript Submission System (UKMSS) XML Conversion suppliers Loading and managing grantees data Setting up the help desk

6. UKPMC Implementation UKMSS OA Document Ingest Researchers Authors Publishers XML, HTML SGML, XML, HTML Free public access PDF, MS Word PDF

7. UKPMC = pPMC + SQL Database 1 st Production Instance

8. Google and the sitemap hiatus

9. UKPMC Manuscript Submission System Two routes to get manuscripts in to UKPMC: 1. Direct via publisher e.g. publish in an open access journal costs associated with open access publishing met from research funding 2. Author - upload a copy of the final manuscript via the UK Manuscript Submission System UK Manuscript Submission System Go Live 8 th January 2007 Distribution of usernames and passwords

10. XML Conversion service suppliers UKMSS submissions accepted in various formats – mainly PDF and MS Word Documents are converted to XML using specialist conversion service Suppliers selected Oct 2006 – contract start 1 st Jan 2007 Selection criteria – price, quality, speed, service level

11. Grantee Data Load 8 Funding bodies lead by Wellcome Trust Grant data supplied - 9000+ Users, 16000+ Grants in total Load to the UKMSS Admin system Distribution of usernames and passwords Updates Phase 2 – Implementation of Microsoft CRM

12. The Help Desk Core responsibilities: XML Conversion service QA Help Desk support Recruitment of staff Training Other tasks/Documentation

13. Contact us UKPMC helpdesk ukpmc@bl.uk / 01937 546699 ukpmc@bl.uk further information available @ ukpmc.ac.uk We welcome feedback, we want to improve our service with your comments