Ten Years After: PMC Milestone Featured in NLM in Focus!
PMC marked its 10th anniversary in 2010 with a celebratory event at its annual Advisory Committee meeting, held at the National Library of Medicine last June. This milestone event was recently featured...
View ArticleA Brand New Look for PMC!
PMC has gotten a facelift-- or more accurately, an interface-lift! The home page, search page and other PMC informational pages have all undergone an overhaul, in order to provide users with easier...
View ArticlePMC Advisory Committee to Meet at NLM
The PMC Advisory Committee will hold its annual meeting at the National Library of Medicine on Friday, June 17, 2011 from 9:30 am to 3 pm. Four new committee members will be joining the group, see New...
View ArticleThe PMC 10th Anniversary Video is now on YouTube!
A video celebrating PMC's first decade is now available for viewing on the NCBI YouTube Channel. ThePMC 10th Anniversary Video can also be found on the regular YouTube site.
View ArticleJATS-Con is Coming!
The second annual Journal Article Tag Suite Conference (JATS-Con) will be held on September 26 and 27, 2011, at the Natcher Conference Center on the NIH Campus in Bethesda, Maryland. The 2011...
View ArticlePMC Advisory Committee Appoints New Members
The following new members have been appointed to serve on the PMC National Advisory Committee: Martha Bedard, Dean of Libraries at the University of New Mexico; and Lorraine Haricombe, Dean of...
View ArticleJATS-Con Dates Announced for 2012!
The third annual Journal Article Tag Suite Conference (JATS-Con) will be held on October 16 and 17, 2012 on the NIH Campus in Bethesda, Maryland. JATS-Con is a conference for users of the NISO Z39.96...
View ArticleNew Version of PMC Help is Released
The PMC user's guide, PMC Help has been updated to include new and improved information on navigating the site as well as descriptions and instructions on using the new search functions, such as Limits...
View ArticleA Facelift for PMC
PMC has recently undergone another redesign to improve the look and feel and functionality of the site, featuring more white space, cleaner lines and enhanced navigation on its article, issue,...
View ArticleJATS Becomes NISO Standard
The Journal Archiving Tag Suite(JATS), known formerly as the NLM DTD, has now been officially adopted as an American National Standards Institute (ANSI)/ National Information Standards Organization...
View ArticleUKPMC Rebranded as Europe PMC
With the addition of several European sponsoring agencies, including the European Research Council, UKPMC was renamed Europe PMC as of November 1, 2012. Europe PMC is an outgrowth and expansion of...
View ArticlePubReader – A New Presentation Style for PMC
NCBI has developed a new web presentation style called PubReader, which offers you an easier way to use your Web browser to read the articles in PMC. Designed particularly for enhancing readability and...
View ArticlePMC Advisory Committee Appoints New Members
As of February 1, 2013, the following new members have been appointed to serve on the PMC National Advisory Committee: Ms. Sharon Terry of the Genetic Alliance; Dr. C. Victor Jongneel of the University...
View ArticleKoreaMed Synapse Adds PubReader as a Display Option
KoreaMed Synapse, a digital archive and reference linking platform of Korean medical journals, is now using NCBI’s new PubReader presentation style to display their full-text journal articles....
View ArticleNew OA Web Service for PMC
PMC is pleased to announce the new OA web service, designed to allow tool developers an easier way to find content in the PMC open access subset. Until now, it has not been easy for outside users to...
View ArticleKeep Better Track of PMC Features
PMC has created a new email list for announcements of new or updated tools and utilities to help you keep better track of improvements to the archive. To find out more information about the list, or to...
View ArticleJATS-Con 2013 Program is Now Available
JATS-Con is a conference for users of the Journal Article Tag Suite, that is, users of any of the "NLM DTDs" or NISO Z39.96. JATS-Con will take place on the NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland on October...
View ArticleSearch for Open Access Articles by License
You can now search for Open Access articles that have certain types of licenses, by using special filters in both PMC and PubMed. These filters are based on license information that is provided to PMC...
View ArticleA New PMC Mailing List and RSS Feed
PMC has recently replaced the PMC-News mailing list and its accompanying RSS feed with a new PMC-Announce list and a new RSS feed. Please note that the older list and feed have now been retired. To...
View ArticleNew Version of PubReader is Released
PMC has recently released an updated version of its PubReader view. The new version (1.2) includes a "search this page" feature that allows you to find specific terms within the article. The latest...
View ArticleNew Version of NCBI Handbook is Released
The NCBI Handbook, 2nd Edition was released on November 14 and is now searchable in Bookshelf. The handbook features an updated section on PMC, which includes information on article retrieval, data...
View ArticleThree Million Articles are Now in PMC!!
As of February 21, 2014, PMC became home to three million articles! As listed on our home page, the content has been provided in part by1441 full participation journals, 277 NIH Portfolio journals...
View ArticlePMC Advisory Committee Meeting to be Held in June
This year's PMC Advisory Committee meeting will be held on Tuesday, June 10. The meeting will take place in the NLM Board room starting at 9:30 am. Stay tuned for further details.
View ArticleCitation Exporter Feature Now Available
PMC is happy to announce the addition of a citation exporter feature. This feature makes it easy to retrieve either styled citations that you can copy/paste into your manuscripts, or to download them...
View ArticleFull text now available for OA subset articles, in plain text format
In order to facilitate text and data mining for articles in the Open Access Subset, we are now providing plain text files for those articles on our FTP site. These files contain the full text of the...
View ArticleCC0 Filter Now Available
PMC includes some journals published by US government agencies that make their articles available under a Creative Commons CC0 (public domain) license. Some other journals also apply a CC0 license to...
View ArticleUpdated PMC journal review process and minimum requirements
The PMC Overview and FAQ have been updated to provide more information on the Scientific Quality Review Process for journals that apply to participate in PMC.In 2014, PMC implemented a scientific and...
View ArticleNIH Author Manuscripts Available for Text Mining
NIH-supported scientists have made over 300,000 author manuscripts available in PMC. Now NIH is making these papers accessible to the public in a format that will allow robust text analyses.You can...
View ArticlePublic Access Expansion and PMC
Last month marked the third anniversary of the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) memorandum directing Federal agencies with more than $100 million in annual research and...
View ArticleFTP service update to improve access to text mining collections
PMC has reorganized its FTP Service site for users interested in accessing the Text Mining Collections, which include the original Open Access (OA) Subset. New top-level FTP directories help users...
View ArticleNew Search Result Filters and Updated Reference List Display
As of August 2016, PMC is home to four million articles! To make this wealth of full-text content easier to navigate, PMC has rolled out a few updates:1) Search Result Filters On all search results...
View ArticlePMC Bulk Download via FTP is Now Using New Naming Conventions
A large-scale update of the file names used for articles available via the PMC FTP service for bulk download was undertaken in early January 2017. The new file naming convention is PMCID-based (e.g.,...
View ArticlePMC Continues to Expand its Role as a Repository for Federally and...
Since March 2016, the NIH Manuscript Submission (NIHMS) system has added support for researchers from the following federal agencies to deposit in PMC any manuscripts that fall under the agency’s...
View ArticleUpdated guidance on data deposit and linking in PMC
In response to the growing interest in the availability of data associated with articles, PMC is reviewing current practices around data and seeking feedback on how to best serve the data needs of the...
View ArticlePMC Canada Status Update
PMC Canada, sponsored by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), with operational support provided by the National Research Council (NRC), has been a valued partner in the PMC International...
View ArticlePMC Year in Review
As we kick off a new year, we wanted to take this opportunity to look back on 2017, which was a milestone year for PMC.Last year, PMC made nearly half a million articles available for the public to...
View ArticleArticle Display Updates
In collaboration with Europe PMC, PMC has rolled out several updates to our article display in order to enhance the transparency and readability of the content.Navigating from the PMC record to the...
View ArticleData Filters in PMC and PubMed
Looking for journal articles with associated data sets? New search filters in PMC and PubMed aim to increase the discoverability of articles with associated data information.In PMC, users can now...
View ArticleUpdated information on journal selection and participation agreements released
PMC has released expanded information about its selection process for journals that apply for participation. The current review process has been in place since November 2014 and focuses on the...
View ArticleOpen Access Week 2018 and PMC
Collaboration with publishers and funders to ensure the openness and preservation of the scientific record is one of PMC’s core principles. Open Access Week offers an opportunity to celebrate some of...
View ArticleDiscovering Associated Data in PMC
In the NLM Strategic Plan released earlier this year, we noted that “[c]reating efficient ways to link the literature with associated datasets enables knowledge generation and discovery.” To that end,...
View ArticlePMC Adds Support for Machine-Readable Clinical Trial Information
Machine-readability of scholarly outputs is critical to supporting large-scale analysis of the scientific literature. To that end, PMC’s Tagging Guidelines and internal processes have been updated to...
View ArticleOpen Access Subset FTP Clean Up
On March 18, 2019, PMC will no longer provide bulk packages of Open Access (OA) Subset text and XML at the top level directory of the FTP Service. These files were superseded in August 2016 by the...
View ArticleUnique Identifiers for Supplemental Material
PMC has updated the Associated Data box to display unique identifiers assigned to supplemental material files by the publisher when available (e.g., DOI; see PMC6351104). In cases where the publisher...
View ArticlePMC Tagging Guidance for Peer Review Documents Now Available
Peer review documents, including review reports and editor decision letters, are increasingly being published along with the articles they review. This practice is intended to make the publishing...
View ArticlePMC Collaborating with Publishers in Response to COVID-19 Public Health...
On March 13, 2020, the National Science and Technology Advisors from a dozen countries, including the United States, called on publishers to voluntarily agree to make their COVID-19 and...
View ArticleNIH Preprint Pilot Launched
On June 9, 2020, NLM launched the NIH Preprint Pilot. During the pilot, NLM will make preprints resulting from research funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) available via PubMed Central...
View ArticlePMC Labs is here - Let Us Know What You Think!
NCBI is at work on a PMC update aimed at creating a more modern and accessible user experience. The first phase of this work is now available on PMC Labs, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc, for you...
View ArticleNew Directories and File Packages for Bulk Retrieval of the PMC Article Datasets
PubMed Central (PMC) has made significant improvements to the bulk retrieval of two of the PMC Article Datasets from our FTP service. The improvements were made to bulk packages which include metadata...
View ArticlePublic Access in PMC Update
In 2021, PubMed Central (PMC) continued to grow and evolve in its role as a repository for research support by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other partner funding agencies. Around 1.3...
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