Preview Upcoming Improvements to PMC
We are pleased to announce the availability of a preview of improvements planned for the PMC website. These improvements will become the default in October 2024 and include an updated article display and enhanced PMC journal list. Click on the "Try it out now" link in the banner on the top of any page on the current PMC website to preview these updates, and visitNCBI Insights for more information. (Source: PubMed Central News)
Source: PubMed Central News - March 21, 2024 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Update on PubReader Format
The PubReader format was added to PMC in 2012 to make it easier to read full text articles on tablet, mobile, and other small screen devices.In March 2022, NCBI launched an updated PMC website. The updated website is mobile responsive, making it easy to read articles in PMC on any device. This makes some legacy features, such as the PubReader view, no longer necessary.In January 2024, we will remove the PubReader links from the PMC website. You will temporarily still be able to access the PubReader format by appending "?report=reader" to any PMC article URL (e.g.,https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9825438/?repor...
Source: PubMed Central News - December 15, 2023 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
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 d...
Source: PubMed Central News - August 30, 2023 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
PMC Public Health Emergency Initiatives Update
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) recently renamed the COVID-19 and Mpox Public Health Emergency Initiatives as thePMC COVID-19 Collection andPMC Mpox Collection, respectively. NLM continues to work with publisher and scholarly society collaborators who contribute content to these collections to provide broad access and support reuse of relevant scientific literature. (Source: PubMed Central News)
Source: PubMed Central News - May 3, 2023 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Clarifying PMC's Role as an Archive
The role of what a library means in a digital world is evolving and expanding. PMC has a large and diverse user base that includes students and the public, as well as researchers, clinicians, and librarians. We recognize that these different audiences have varying levels of familiarity with NLM, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the scholarly publishing process and have recently updated how we describe, display, and share articles in PMC to provide our users with more context. VisitNCBI Insights for more information about these updates. (Source: PubMed Central News)
Source: PubMed Central News - April 19, 2023 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Second Phase of the NIH Preprint Pilot Launched
Today, we are pleased to announce the launch of the second phase of the NIH Preprint Pilot with the addition of more than 700 new preprint records to PubMed Central (PMC) and PubMed. This second phase expands the scope of the Pilot to include preprints resulting from all NIH-funded research. Eligible preprints are those acknowledging direct support of an NIH award or authored by NIH staff and posted to bioRxiv, medRxiv, arXiv, or Research Square, on or after January 1, 2023. NLM will automatically include the full text of the preprint (as license terms allow) and associated citation information in PMC and PubMed, respectiv...
Source: PubMed Central News - January 30, 2023 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Next Phase of NIH Preprint Pilot Launching Soon
Last month, the National Library of Medicine (NLM)announced plans to extend its NIH Preprint Pilot in PubMed Central (PMC) and PubMed beyond COVID-19 to encompass all preprints reporting on NIH-funded research. The second phase of the pilot, launching later this month, will include preprints supported by an NIH award, contract, or intramural program and posted to aneligible preprint server on or after January 1, 2023.In preparation for the launch of this second phase, we have updated PMC and PubMed site features to help users of these databases incorporate the increased volume of preprints into their discovery workflows. S...
Source: PubMed Central News - January 10, 2023 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
PMC Collaborating with Publishers in Response to Mpox Public Health Emergency
On August 4, 2022, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) announced acoordinated call to action with the science and technology leaders of more than 20 countries, requesting that publishers voluntarily make mpox and other orthopox-related publications freely and immediately accessible in appropriate public repositories to support the ongoing public health emergency response efforts. The call specified that these articles be made available with broad reuse rights in both human- and machine-readable formats to allow access to full text content and metadata.Publishers have responded to the call by volu...
Source: PubMed Central News - September 8, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
PMC Collaborating with Publishers in Response to Monkeypox Public Health Emergency
On August 4, 2022, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) announced acoordinated call to action with the science and technology leaders of more than 20 countries, requesting that publishers voluntarily make monkeypox and other orthopox-related publications freely and immediately accessible in appropriate public repositories to support the ongoing public health emergency response efforts. The call specified that these articles be made available with broad reuse rights in both human- and machine-readable formats to allow access to full text content and metadata.Publishers have responded to the call by...
Source: PubMed Central News - September 8, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
PMC Releases Improved Related Resources Feature
PMC has released an updated feature to make it easier to explore information related to a given article. You will now see three sections in the right-hand column of all PMC articles which can be opened to browse similar articles in PubMed, articles that cite the current article, and links to related data records in National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) databases.See ourpost in the NLM Technical Bulletin for more details about the update, and please continue to provide feedback through the Feedback button found on the PMC website. (Source: PubMed Central News)
Source: PubMed Central News - August 30, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
New PMC Website Design is Live!
We have launched a fresh look and feel to the PubMed Central (PMC) website, which marks the first step of an ongoing modernization effort. Now when you visit PMC's website, you will see:a redesigned and reorganized homepageeasy-to-navigate help documentationa similar look and feel between features in PMC and PubMeda streamlined article displaySee ourpost in NCBI Insights for more details about the update, and please continue to provide feedback through the green "Feedback" button in the lower right-hand corner of the PMC website. (Source: PubMed Central News)
Source: PubMed Central News - March 22, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Public 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 million articles have been made publicly accessible in PMC under the NIH Public Access Policy; and the volume of NIH-supported articles added to PMC with associated data content continues to increase annually (59% of articles in 2020 included supplementary material and/or a data availability statement vs. 27% in 2009). Other recent activities include:Release of anew training video that walks users through the NIH Manuscript Subm...
Source: PubMed Central News - February 24, 2022 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
New 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 thePMC Article Datasets from ourFTP service. The improvements were made to bulk packages which include metadata and full text files of articles in XML or plain text formats for thePMC Open Access (OA) Subset and theAuthor Manuscript Dataset, which combined encompass more than half of the 7 million articles in PMC. To improve the usability of these two datasets, PMC has redesigned the bulk download directory structure and file packages on our FTP service. The new structure includes:baseline packages that contain all articles available in ...
Source: PubMed Central News - September 21, 2021 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
PMC 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 to explore and provide feedback. See our post onNCBI Insights for details about key features in PMC Labs and more about our plan for updating the site.Trying Out PMC on LabsWe encourage you to explore the site and provide feedback. Buttons on the lower right-hand side of the screen make it easy to provide feedback or navigate back to the current PMC site.To return to the PMC website after visiting PMC on Labs, click the red â...
Source: PubMed Central News - June 14, 2021 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
NIH 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 (PMC) and, by extension, PubMed. The pilot aims to explore approaches to increasing the discoverability of early NIH research results. The pilot will run for a minimum of 12 months. Lessons learned during that time will inform future NLM efforts with preprints.To learn more about the pilot, see:NIH Preprint Pilot OverviewNIH Preprint Pilot FAQsNLM Director ’s blog announcementNLM Technical BulletinNIH Extramural NexusTo find ...
Source: PubMed Central News - June 15, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
