Scalable Biodiversity Monitoring by Broadening Article Acquisition

For over a decade, the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics and HES-SO/HEG Geneva have maintained the SIB Literature Services (SIBiLS, Gobeill et al. 2020). SIBiLS is also an ELIXIR Data Resource, supported by the Data Platform commissioned services.

In 2023, SIBiLS received a significant upgrade with the launch of the Biodiversity PMC digital library. SIBiLS is indeed operating the backend of Biodiversity PMC, which has emerged as the main user portal of SIBiLS. Biodiversity PMC is indeed becoming a global resource in the field: Biodiversity PMC is the largest digitally-native repository of articles for biodiversity research and related disciplines; thus delivering a broad coverage “One Health” library with a broader biodiversity-related coverage than PubMed of EuropePMC.

ScaleBioM aims to enhance Biodiversity PMC to : 1) broaden the coverage by harvesting contents directly from OpenAlex, 2. maintain topical consistency by using automatic filtering methods to harvest only biodiversity related contents from OpenAlex.

We will evaluate how these services can help ecologists - and in particular our partner, Prof. Clara Zemp, from the University of Neuchâtel - to monitor biodiversity on island ecosystems. The development of the automatic filtering services will also benefit from the support from assessments performed by the IPBES.