Update on Access to Coronavirus-related Articles in PubMed Central (PMC) COVID-19 Collection after end of Public Health Emergency

Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, the National Library of Medicine (NLM)collaborated with publishers and scholarly societies to expand access to coronavirus-related journal articles in PubMed Central (PMC). Through this collaboration, more than 50 publishers made more than 350,000 coronavirus-related articles accessible under various license terms through thePMC COVID-19 Collection (previously the PMC COVID-19 Public Health Emergency Initiative).As COVID-19 emergency declarations expired in the United States and around the globe, so too did article-level license terms for use of some of these articles. Most of the articles deposited in the PMC COVID-19 Collection will remain available in PMC, and all citations will remain searchable in PubMed and available for bulk distribution and reuse through the PMC Open Access Subset. However, some publishers retained the right to remove their content and have requested to do so.Details on changes to the licensing status or availability of content can be found in theNLM Technical Bulletin. More information, including a list of publishers and their licensing statuses, is available in thePMC COVID-19 Collection FAQs and on thePMC COVID-19 Collection webpage.
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