New Search Result Filters and Updated Reference List Display
As of August 2016, PMC is home tofour million articles! To make this wealth of
full-text content easier to navigate, PMC has rolled out a few updates:1) Search Result Filters On all search results pages, you will now see filters
(similar to PubMed ’s filters) on the left-hand side that allow you to filter your results by
article attributes, publication date, research funder, and search fields. These filters
replace the Limits page and allow you to more readily:find open access articles (PMC has more than 1.35 million open access articles that can
be reused according to their lice...
Source: PubMed Central News - August 17, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
FTP service update to improve access to text mining collections
PMC has reorganized itsFTP Service site for users interested
in accessing theText Mining Collections, which include
the original Open Access (OA) Subset. New top-level FTP directories help users quickly
locate the content available for bulk download that best suits their research needs. These
directories include:oa_package - article
packages for individual OA articlesoa_pdf– individual PDFs for OA
articlesoa_bulk– bulk packages of
text from OA articlesmanuscript– author
manuscripts collected under a funding agency’s public access policyhistoric...
Source: PubMed Central News - August 1, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Public Access Expansion and PMC
Last month marked the third anniversary of the White House ’s Office of Science and
Technology Policy (OSTP) memorandum directing Federal agencies with more than $100 million
in annual research and development (R&D) expenditures to develop plans for increasing
public access to the results of the research they support, including scholarly publications.
As a result of this directive, in 2015, PMC started providing support as a public access
repository for funding agencies beyond theNational
Institutes of Health (NIH) andHoward Hughes Medical Institute
(HHMI).As ...
Source: PubMed Central News - March 24, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
NIH Author Manuscripts Available for Text Mining
NIH-supported scientists have made over 300,000 author manuscripts available in PMC. Now
NIH is making these papers accessible to the public in a format that will allow robust text
analyses.You can download the PMC collection of NIH-supported author manuscripts as a package in
either XML or plain-text format at ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/manuscript/. The collection encompasses all NIH
manuscripts posted to PMC that were published in July 2008 or later. While the public can
access the manuscripts’ full text and accompanying figures, tables, and multimedia via the
PMC...
Source: PubMed Central News - January 11, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Updated PMC journal review process and minimum requirements
The PMC Overview and FAQ have been
updated to provide more information on the Scientific Quality Review Process for journals
that apply to participate in PMC.In 2014, PMC implemented a scientific and editorial quality review procedure whereby expert
consultants from outside the National Library of Medicine (NLM) conduct an independent
review of journals seeking to participate in PMC. This was in response to a significant
increase in new publishers and journals applying to participate in PMC, many of which are
unknown to NLM in terms of quality and publishing practices. The in...
Source: PubMed Central News - December 15, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
CC0 Filter Now Available
PMC includes some journals published by US government agencies that make their articles
available under a Creative Commons CC0 (public domain) license. Some other journals also
apply a CC0 license to selected articles in PMC. All these articles may be used and
reproduced without special permission. However, anyone using the material is requested to
properly cite and acknowledge the source. You may now search for CC0 articles by using special filters in both PMC (cc0 license[filter]) and PubMed (pmc cc0 license[filter]). These filters
are based on license information that is provided ...
Source: PubMed Central News - November 23, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Full text now available for OA subset articles, in plain text format
In order to facilitate text and data mining for articles in the Open Access Subset, we are
now providing plain text files for those articles on our FTP site. These files contain the
full text of the article, extracted either from the XML source files, or (for those articles
that don't have XML) the PDF files. Users are directly and solely responsible for compliance
with copyright restrictions and are expected to adhere to the terms and conditions defined
by the copyright holder (see the PMC Copyright Notice).These text files are bundled in gzipped archives. Note that these files are ...
Source: PubMed Central News - February 5, 2015 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Citation Exporter Feature Now Available
PMC is happy to announce the addition of a citation exporter feature. This feature makes it
easy to retrieve either styled citations that you can copy/paste into your manuscripts, or
to download them into a format compatible with your bibliographic reference manager
software.When viewing an Entrez search results page, each result summary will now include a
"Citation" link. When, clicked, this will open a pop-up window that you can use to easily
copy/paste citations formatted in one of three popular styles: AMA (American Medical
Association), MLA (Modern Library Association, o...
Source: PubMed Central News - November 18, 2014 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Three Million Articles are Now in PMC!!
As of February 21, 2014, PMC became home to three million articles! As listed on our home page, the content has been provided in
part by 1441 full participation journals, 277 NIH Portfolio journals and
2470 selective deposit journals. For related information on PMC milestones, see
these announcements from 2007 and
2010, respectively. (Source: PubMed Central News)
Source: PubMed Central News - February 24, 2014 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
New Version of NCBI Handbook is Released
The NCBI Handbook, 2nd Edition was released on November 14 and is now searchable in Bookshelf. The handbook features
an updated section on PMC, which
includes information on article retrieval, data processing, and PMC tools and utilities.
Other PMC-related literature sections that have been updated include Bookshelf, the NIH Manuscript Submission
System and the NLM DTD. (Source: PubMed Central News)
Source: PubMed Central News - November 18, 2013 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
PMC Releases New ID Converter
PMC has just released an upgrade to our ID converter, now dubbed the PMCID - PMID -Manuscript ID - DOI
Converter. This utility allows you to start with the unique identifier for an article
that is in PMC, and find additional unique identifiers that may apply to the article.
Improvements include support for DOIs, auto-detection of the ID type based on its format,
and enhanced output. It also provides output in any of several different formats: HTML, XML,
JSON, or CSV. This tool uses an underlying web service, that is also publicly available for
those needing programmatic ac...
Source: PubMed Central News - November 18, 2013 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
New Version of PubReader is Released
PMC has recently released an updated version of its PubReader view. The new
version (1.2) includes a "search this page" feature that allows you to find specific
terms within the article. The latest source code is also available from the GitHub repository. (Source: PubMed Central News)
Source: PubMed Central News - September 4, 2013 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
A New PMC Mailing List and RSS Feed
PMC has recently replaced the PMC-News mailing list and its accompanying RSS feed with a
new PMC-Announce
list and a new
RSS feed. Please note that the older list and feed have now been retired. To subscribe
to the new announcement list, see http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mailman/listinfo/pmc-announce/. To see the new RSS feed,
update your news reader to subscribe to http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/about/new-in-pmc/?format=rss. (Source: PubMed Central News)
Source: PubMed Central News - August 15, 2013 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Search for Open Access Articles by License
You can now search for Open Access articles that have certain types of licenses, by using
special filters in both PMC and PubMed. These filters are based on license information that
is provided to PMC by publishers and other content providers, as encoded by machine-readable
identifiers in the source XML of each article. For more information, see our updated Open Access Subset page. (Source: PubMed Central News)
Source: PubMed Central News - August 5, 2013 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
