PMC Collaborating with Publishers in Response to COVID-19 Public Health Emergency
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 coronavirus-related publications and associated data immediately accessible in PubMed Central (PMC) and other appropriate public repositories to support the ongoing public health emergency response efforts.For more information on which publishers have responded to this call and how to discover COVID-19 and coronavirus-related publications in PMC, see the mainCOVID-19 Initiative page.AFAQ is also available. If you have questions not addresse...
Source: PubMed Central News - March 26, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
PMC 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 process more transparent. To support these efforts,PMC ’s Tagging Guidelines have been updated to include the tagging of peer review documents. NLM encourages PMC-participating publishers, journals, and data providers to review this guidance. Please contact us atpubmedcentral@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov if you have any questions. (Source: PubMed Central News)
Source: PubMed Central News - July 31, 2019 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Unique 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; seePMC6351104). In cases
where the publisher has not assigned a unique ID to a supplemental file, NLM will generate
and display a Globally Unique Identifier (GUID; seePMC6351564). This update
aims to support the reporting of datasets as well as the citation and discovery of this
content.Publishers that are interested in supplying unique IDs for supplemental material files with
their PMC submissions should visit theTagging Gu...
Source: PubMed Central News - February 4, 2019 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Open 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 These files were superseded in August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 Commercial Use and Non-Commercial Use bulk packages located in the oa_bulk
subdirectory. One set comprises articles that may be used for commercial purposes (the
Commercial Use Collection); the other contains articles that can be used only for
non-commercial purposes. Anyone planning to use OA subset content for non-commercial
purposes will need to download both “non_comm_use.*.ta...
Source: PubMed Central News - January 14, 2019 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
PMC 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 support theJATS4R recommendations for tagging clinical trial information. NLM encourages PMC-participating publishers, journals, and data providers to review this guidance. Please contact us atpubmedcentral@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov if you have any questions. (Source: PubMed Central News)
Source: PubMed Central News - January 7, 2019 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Discovering 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, PMC is now aggregating data citations, data availability statements and supplementary materials, as available, in an Associated Data box. This box will only displa y on articles that have one or more of these features in the article.To limit your search to records with an Associated Data box, you can use the new "Associated Data" facet on the search results page:We hope that exposing this content in a consistent format an...
Source: PubMed Central News - November 15, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Open 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 the recent outcomes of these collaborations:In July 2018, the PMC corpus of publicly accessible articles hit 5 million articles.In May 2018, thePMC Open Access Subset surpassed the 2 million article mark.TheAuthor Manuscript Collection now includes more than 500,000 papers for text mining.ThePMC and Research Funder Policy page underwent an update in September 2018 to increase transparency around funder support in PMC for pu...
Source: PubMed Central News - October 23, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Updated information on journal selection and participation agreements released
PMC hasreleased expanded information about its
selection process for journals that apply for participation. The current review process has
been in placesince November 2014 and focuses
on the scientific rigor and editorial quality of each journal that applies to participate in
PMC. Some of the attributes taken into account as part of this process include the article
content, journal policies, language quality, and presentation of content. The same
assessment considerations are used forreevaluation
of currently participating journals. We encourage you to visit theJour...
Source: PubMed Central News - June 26, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Data 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 search on or append searches with filters to discover articles with
specific types of associated data, i.e., to findarticles with associated supplementary material, use“has suppdata”[filter];articles that include a data availability or data accessibility statement, use“has data avail”[filter]; orarticles that include data citation(s), use“has data
citations”[filter]Alternatively, users can run...
Source: PubMed Central News - April 18, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Article Display Updates
In collaboration withEurope 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 PubMed record has been made easier by the addition of
hyperlinked PubMed IDs (PMIDs) in the upper right-hand corner of article records. Clicking
the PMID link will take you to the corresponding citation record in PubMed.The PMC Disclaimer link has also been moved out of the Copyright and License information
section for easier discovery and access. This page describes what content is include...
Source: PubMed Central News - March 28, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
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 theNL...
Source: PubMed Central News - January 4, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
PMC 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 thePMC International network since 2009. CIHR and
NRC have now notified NLM of their decision to permanently take PubMed Central Canada (PMC
Canada) offline on February 23, 2018. Details of this decision are available on thePMC Canada website.The decision to decommission PMC Canada does not affect the status or operations of NIH ’s
PubMed Central (US) or Europe PubMed Central. PMC Canada content will remai...
Source: PubMed Central News - December 18, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Updated 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 research community.As part of these efforts, thePMC policy
statement on supplementary data was recently updated to more clearly articulate the
requirement that any supplementary data (images, tables, video, or other documents / files)
that are associated with an article must be deposited in PMC with an article. The search
filter "has
suppdata[filter]" can be used in ...
Source: PubMed Central News - October 30, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
PMC Continues to Expand its Role as a Repository for Federally and Privately-funded
Research
SinceMarch 2016, theNIH
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
public access policy:Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR/HHS; intramural only at this
time)Environmental Protection Agency (EPA; intramural only at this time)National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA; intramural/civil servants and
grantees)Manuscript deposit support for all Administration for Community Living (ACL/HHS)
researchers will be availabl...
Source: PubMed Central News - August 28, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
PMC Bulk Download via FTP is Now Using New Naming Conventions
A large-scale update of the file names used for articles available via thePMC FTP service for bulk download was undertaken in early January
2017. The new file naming convention is PMCID-based (e.g., PMC4855680.tar.gz) rather than
being built from article citation data (i.e., journal abbreviation_pub
date_volume_issue_page). This update was made following user reports that the previous
naming convention was resulting in missing contents in cases where citation data was
duplicated across multiple articles. The new convention will ensure that file names are
unique and that the c...
Source: PubMed Central News - January 19, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
