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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