PMC Year in Review

As we kick off a new year, we wanted to take this opportunity to look back on 2017, which was amilestone year for PMC.Last year, PMC made nearly half a million articles available for the public to access with the support of participating journals, publisher programs, and research funders. Also, in addition to expanding support forpublic access to research results and thelinking of those results to the underlying dataset(s), PMC released several other policy and resource updates. These include:Clearerstatement of scope for PMC (see also the updated entry in theNLM Collection Development Manual for “Journals”);Guidance for journals onreapplying to PMC;Policy statements on thescientific, editorial, and technical standards for PMC (including details on the journal reevaluation process), the supply ofback content, the eligibility of non-Englishlanguage journals, and the maintenance ofpublishing schedules;Production data requirements for PMC-participating journals; andMajor update to thePMC Article Previewer, a tool that allows publishers to see or “preview” how articles will appear in PMC and resolve data problems prior to submission.In September, NLMrecognized the achievements to date in the Wellcome Trust and NLM Biomedical Journal Digitization project, which has added a dozen new historical titles and more ...
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