A Brand New Look for PMC!
PMC has gotten a facelift-- or more accurately, an interface-lift! The home page, search
page and other PMC informational pages have all undergone an overhaul, in order to provide
users with easier navigation, enhanced features, and a look and feel that is more consistent
with other recently updated NCBI sites, such as PubMed and Bookshelf. Additional new
features and updates will be coming soon. For more information on navigating the new site,
see the article in the
July-August issue of the NLM Technical Bulletin. (Source: PubMed Central News)
Source: PubMed Central News - May 26, 2011 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Ten Years After: PMC Milestone Featured in NLM in Focus!
PMC marked its 10th anniversary in 2010 with a celebratory event at its annual Advisory
Committee meeting, held at the National Library of Medicine last June. This milestone event
was recently featured in the February 17th edition of NLM In Focus, in an article NLM
Milestones: The Hits Just Keep on Coming. For more information on the ten years of
PMC, see the article in the May-June issue of the NLM Technical Bulletin. (Source: PubMed Central News)
Source: PubMed Central News - February 28, 2011 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
New Members Appointed to PMC Advisory Committee
Four new members have been appointed to serve on the PMC National Advisory Committee:
Philip Bourne, of the University of California, San Diego; Sophia Colamarino, an independent
consultant in San Francisco; Paul Courant, of the University of Michigan; and Patricia
Thibodeau, of Duke University. Each member will serve a 4-year term. The next meeting of the
committee is scheduled for Friday, June 17, 2011. For more information on the committee, see
PMC National Advisory Committee. (Source: PubMed Central News)
Source: PubMed Central News - February 17, 2011 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
A New Look and Feel for PMC's Public Access Page
The Public Access & PMC page has been redesigned
for greater clarity and usability. In addition to including a list of the FAQs at the top,
the new page features a table illustrating all the ways to find various reference numbers
for an article: the PMID, NIHMSID, and most important, the PMCID, which must be used to
demonstrate compliance in terms of the NIH Public
Access Policy. (Source: PubMed Central News)
Source: PubMed Central News - September 14, 2010 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
PMC Hits Two Million Mark!!
It's official—PMC has just become home to two million
articles! The record-breaking article, which came from the American Journal of
Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, became publicly available in the
PMC archive on June 23. This new PMC milestone has occurred almost three years to the day
since PMC reached its last one: the one-million article mark in June 2007. See also: PubMed Central Hits One Million Article
Mark. (Source: PubMed Central News)
Source: PubMed Central News - June 25, 2010 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
First-Ever Journal Article Tag Suite Conference (JATS-Con) to be Held in November
2010
PMC is pleased to announce the first of what we hope will be an annual series of
conferences for users of the Journal Article Tag Suite, that is, for users of any of the
“NLM DTDs”. The Journal Article Tag Suite Conference (JATS-Con) is a peer-reviewed
conference that will feature a broad range of content on the Tag Suite—from the technical
components to publishing theory—as well as the latest news on the Tag Suite. The conference
will be hosted by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National
Library of Medicine on the NIH campus in Bethesd...
Source: PubMed Central News - June 17, 2010 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
PMC Canada's Manuscript Submission System Goes Live!
The PMC Canada manuscript submission system
was released on April 28, 2010. The system will enable researchers funded by the Canadian
Institutes of Health Research to deposit their peer-reviewed research publications, in
compliance with CIHR's Policy on Access to
Research Outputs. (Source: PubMed Central News)
Source: PubMed Central News - April 29, 2010 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
New Members for PMC Advisory Committee
Four new members have been appointed to serve on the PMC National Advisory Committee: Mike
Rossner of Rockefeller University Press, Jan Fassler of the University of Iowa, Ivy Anderson
of the California Digital Library, and Delores Meglio from the Knovel Corporation. Each
member will serve a 4-year term. The next meeting of the committee is scheduled for June 4,
2010. For more information on the committee, see PMC National Advisory
Committee. (Source: PubMed Central News)
Source: PubMed Central News - February 24, 2010 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
New URLs in PMC
PMC recently redesigned its URL format to allow for easier usability as well as consistency
across the NCBI site. To implement this change, we moved the previous site,
www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov, into the NCBI domain as a sub-site. You can now access
the PMC home page at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc.The primary advantage of the new format is to enable the PMC site to become more fully
integrated with other NCBI resources. The new URLs are also more user-friendly—they no
longer include technology-driven terminology, such as CGI script names and file extensions
(Figure 1)...
Source: PubMed Central News - November 16, 2009 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
PMC Now Offers a “Preview” Table of Contents for Embargoed Issues
For any journal issue that has at least one open access or early access article, PMC is now
displaying the table of contents (TOC) in advance of the whole issue becoming available. Not
to worry, though—only those articles specified for early release are immediately viewable in
PMC. As consistent with the terms of access in the journal agreement, the other articles
will only become available on their specified release date, as shown in the TOC below.
The journal's accessiblity, as indicated on the PMC Journal
list also has not changed; for example, Plant Physiology'...
Source: PubMed Central News - October 28, 2009 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
PMC Canada is Launched!
The newest addition to the PMC International effort, PubMed Central Canada has now been made public.
Stay tuned for the launch of PMC Canada's manuscript submission system later this year. (Source: PubMed Central News)
Source: PubMed Central News - October 21, 2009 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
PMC Adds New Page on Public Access
A new page, Public Access & PMC, has now been
added to the About PMC section of the PubMed Central site. “Public Access & PMC”
provides information on the relationship between PMC and the NIH Public Access policy,
including the difference between the NIH Public Access journal list and PMC journal list. In
particular, authors and publishers should find this new site to be a useful resource. (Source: PubMed Central News)
Source: PubMed Central News - October 1, 2009 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
New Search Function Released
You can now find embargoed articles and their corresponding PMCIDs through a recently
released search option in the PMC Entrez database. Using the “Limits” tab, click in the
field, “Show both free and embargoed articles” and refine your search by journal, author,
date, article type, and/or tag term, as needed. Once you’re on the summary page, click on
the “embargoed” tab at the top to find the articles in this category. You can then find the
PMCID and date of availability at the bottom of the article citation, as indicated in the
example below. Note: The PMC sea...
Source: PubMed Central News - July 24, 2009 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
PMC Canada to Start in Fall 2009
Canada is soon expected to join the international effort to provide access to health
research through the PMC International network of digital
archives. PMC Canada is the result of a three-way collaborative effort by the National
Library of Medicine (NLM), the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), and the
National Research Council's Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information
(NRC-CISTI). Similar to UK PubMed Central, PMC Canada will include most of the health and
life sciences literature available through the U.S. PMC. PMC Canada will also include
...
Source: PubMed Central News - July 6, 2009 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
PMC Advisory Committee Meets at NLM
The most recent meeting of the PMC Advisory Committee was held at
the National Library of Medicine on June 15, 2009. The committee meets at least once a year
and its members are appointed by the NIH Director from the biomedical information
communities and the general public. Dr. Gary Ward, of the Department of Microbiology &
Molecular Genetics at the University of Vermont, has been appointed to serve as Chair of the
Committee through January 2011. (Source: PubMed Central News)
Source: PubMed Central News - June 16, 2009 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
