New in PMC
September 16, 2024 - PMC website update coming October 15 March 21, 2024 - Preview Upcoming Improvements to PMC December 15, 2023 - Update on PubReader Format August 30, 2023 - Update on Access to Coronavirus-related Articles in PubMed Central (PMC) COVID-19 Collection after end of Public Health Emergency May 03, 2023 - PMC Public Health Emergency Initiatives Update April 19, 2023 - Clarifying PMC's Role as an Archive January 30, 2023 - Second Phase of the NIH Preprint Pilot Launched January 10, 2023 - Next Phase of NIH Preprint Pilot Launching Soon September 08, 2022 - PMC Collaborating with Publishers in Response to Mpox Public Health Emergency August 30, 2022 - PMC Releases Improved Related Resources Feature March 22, 2022 - New PMC Website Design is Live! February 24, 2022 - Public Access in PMC Update September 21, 2021 - New Directories and File Packages for Bulk Retrieval of the PMC Article Datasets June 14, 2021 - PMC Labs is here - Let Us Know What You Think! June 15, 2020 - NIH Preprint Pilot Launched March 26, 2020 - PMC Collaborating with Publishers in Response to COVID-19 Public Health Emergency July 31, 2019 - PMC Tagging Guidance for Peer Review Documents Now Available February 04, 2019 - Unique Identifiers for Supplemental Material January 14, 2019 - Open Access Subset FTP Clean Up January 07, 2019 - PMC Adds Support for Machine-Readable Clinical Trial Information November 15, 2018 - Discovering Associated Data in PMC October 23, 2018 - Open Access Week 2018 and PMC June 26, 2018 - Updated information on journal selection and participation agreements released April 18, 2018 - Data Filters in PMC and PubMed March 28, 2018 - Article Display Updates January 04, 2018 - PMC Year in Review December 18, 2017 - PMC Canada Status Update October 30, 2017 - Updated guidance on data deposit and linking in PMC August 28, 2017 - PMC Continues to Expand its Role as a Repository for Federally and Privately-funded Research January 19, 2017 - PMC Bulk Download via FTP is Now Using New Naming Conventions August 17, 2016 - New Search Result Filters and Updated Reference List Display August 01, 2016 - FTP service update to improve access to text mining collections March 24, 2016 - Public Access Expansion and PMC January 11, 2016 - NIH Author Manuscripts Available for Text Mining December 15, 2015 - Updated PMC journal review process and minimum requirements November 23, 2015 - CC0 Filter Now Available February 05, 2015 - Full text now available for OA subset articles, in plain text format November 18, 2014 - Citation Exporter Feature Now Available March 28, 2014 - PMC Advisory Committee Meeting to be Held in June February 24, 2014 - Three Million Articles are Now in PMC!! November 18, 2013 - PMC Releases New ID Converter November 18, 2013 - New Version of NCBI Handbook is Released September 04, 2013 - New Version of PubReader is Released August 15, 2013 - A New PMC Mailing List and RSS Feed August 05, 2013 - Search for Open Access Articles by License July 17, 2013 - JATS-Con 2013 Program is Now Available April 22, 2013 - Keep Better Track of PMC Features April 19, 2013 - New OA Web Service for PMC February 01, 2013 - KoreaMed Synapse Adds PubReader as a Display Option February 01, 2013 - PMC Advisory Committee Appoints New Members December 11, 2012 - PubReader - A New Presentation Style for PMC November 05, 2012 - UKPMC Rebranded as Europe PMC August 22, 2012 - JATS Becomes NISO Standard July 13, 2012 - A Facelift for PMC July 12, 2012 - New Version of PMC Help is Released March 26, 2012 - JATS-Con Dates Announced for 2012! February 29, 2012 - PMC Advisory Committee Appoints New Members July 12, 2011 - JATS-Con is Coming! June 20, 2011 - The PMC 10th Anniversary Video is now on YouTube! June 14, 2011 - PMC Advisory Committee to Meet at NLM May 26, 2011 - A Brand New Look for PMC! February 28, 2011 - Ten Years After: PMC Milestone Featured in February 17, 2011 - New Members Appointed to PMC Advisory Committee September 14, 2010 - A New Look and Feel for PMC's Public Access Page June 25, 2010 - PMC Hits Two Million Mark!! June 17, 2010 - First-Ever Journal Article Tag Suite Conference (JATS-Con) to be Held in November 2010 April 29, 2010 - PMC Canada's Manuscript Submission System Goes Live! February 24, 2010 - New Members for PMC Advisory Committee November 16, 2009 - New URLs in PMC October 28, 2009 - PMC Now Offers a "Preview" Table of Contents for Embargoed Issues October 21, 2009 - PMC Canada is Launched! October 01, 2009 - PMC Adds New Page on Public Access July 24, 2009 - New Search Function Released July 06, 2009 - PMC Canada to Start in Fall 2009 June 16, 2009 - PMC Advisory Committee Meets at NLM May 19, 2009 - New Version of PubMed Central Journal List Released
September 16, 2024
PMC website update coming October 15
the primary URL format for the website will change from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/ to https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ Existing links to most PMC pages with the prior format will redirect to the equivalent page using the new format. PMC search, the PMC Publisher Portal, and most of the public file validation tools will maintain the https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc format. Journal "archive" pages will redirect to the new PMC Journal List record: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/journals/2/ --> https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/journals/?term=Proceedings +of+the+National+Academy+of+Sciences+of+the+United+States+of+America Table of contents pages for issues will also redirect to the PMC Journal List. Visit the PMC User Guide to learn how to find articles by volume and issue .
March 21, 2024
Preview Upcoming Improvements to PMC
December 15, 2023
Update on PubReader Format
August 30, 2023
Update on Access to Coronavirus-related Articles in PubMed Central (PMC) COVID-19 Collection after end of Public Health Emergency
May 03, 2023
PMC Public Health Emergency Initiatives Update
April 19, 2023
Clarifying PMC's Role as an Archive
January 30, 2023
Second Phase of the NIH Preprint Pilot Launched
January 10, 2023
Next Phase of NIH Preprint Pilot Launching Soon
September 08, 2022
PMC Collaborating with Publishers in Response to Mpox Public Health Emergency
August 30, 2022
PMC Releases Improved Related Resources Feature
March 22, 2022
New PMC Website Design is Live!
a redesigned and reorganized homepage easy-to-navigate help documentation a similar look and feel between features in PMC and PubMed a streamlined article display
February 24, 2022
Public Access in PMC Update
Release of a new training video that walks users through the NIH Manuscript Submission (NIHMS) system deposit workflow, as well as updated tutorials . Modifications to the NIHMS system to support new funder requirements (e.g., see the updated Howard Hughes Medical Institute Open Access Policy that took effect January 1, 2022; a supplemental tutorial is also now available for HHMI submitters). Expansion of the Health Research Alliance (HRA) Open program to support the open access policies of The Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration and IRIDIAN GENOMES. New submissions to NASA PubSpace have moved from the NIHMS system to the NASA Science and Technology Information Program. Further information is available on the NASA STI Program website . Release of the PMC Funder Deposit List to help publishers, funders, and institutions identify the funded content that can be deposited in PMC and clarify the available submission routes.
September 21, 2021
New Directories and File Packages for Bulk Retrieval of the PMC Article Datasets
[Story Updated April 1, 2022]
baseline packages that contain all articles available in PMC as of the baseline date for each respective dataset or grouping; and daily incremental packages for each respective dataset or grouping that only contain articles that are new to the dataset or that have been updated since the baseline or previous incremental file was created.
Commercial Use Allowed - CC0, CC BY, CC BY-SA, CC BY-ND licenses; Non-Commercial Use Only - CC BY-NC, CC BY-NC-SA, CC BY-NC-ND licenses; and Other - no machine-readable Creative Commons license, no license, or a custom license.
June 14, 2021
PMC Labs is here - Let Us Know What You Think!
Trying Out PMC on Labs
June 15, 2020
NIH Preprint Pilot Launched
NIH Preprint Pilot Overview NIH Preprint Pilot FAQs NLM Director's blog announcement NLM Technical Bulletin NIH Extramural Nexus
March 26, 2020
PMC Collaborating with Publishers in Response to COVID-19 Public Health Emergency
July 31, 2019
PMC Tagging Guidance for Peer Review Documents Now Available
February 04, 2019
Unique Identifiers for Supplemental Material
January 14, 2019
Open Access Subset FTP Clean Up
January 07, 2019
PMC Adds Support for Machine-Readable Clinical Trial Information
November 15, 2018
Discovering Associated Data in PMC
October 23, 2018
Open Access Week 2018 and PMC
In July 2018, the PMC corpus of publicly accessible articles hit 5 million articles. In May 2018, the PMC Open Access Subset surpassed the 2 million article mark. The Author Manuscript Collection now includes more than 500,000 papers for text mining. The PMC and Research Funder Policy page underwent an update in September 2018 to increase transparency around funder support in PMC for publishers, authors, and the public. Funder policy support in PMC has been extended to the US Department of Homeland Security, in addition to several new US private research funders via the Health Research Alliance.
June 26, 2018
Updated information on journal selection and participation agreements released
April 18, 2018
Data Filters in PMC and PubMed
articles with associated supplementary material, use "has suppdata"[filter] ; articles that include a data availability or data accessibility statement, use "has data avail"[filter]; or articles that include data citation(s), use "has data citations"[filter]
March 28, 2018
Article Display Updates
References
January 04, 2018
PMC Year in Review
Clearer statement of scope for PMC (see also the updated entry in the NLM Collection Development Manual for "Journals" ); Guidance for journals on reapplying to PMC ; Policy statements on the scientific, editorial, and technical standards for PMC (including details on the journal reevaluation process), the supply of back content , the eligibility of non-English language journals, and the maintenance of publishing schedules ; Production data requirements for PMC-participating journals; and Major update to the PMC Article Previewer , a tool that allows publishers to see or "preview" how articles will appear in PMC and resolve data problems prior to submission.
December 18, 2017
PMC Canada Status Update
October 30, 2017
Updated guidance on data deposit and linking in PMC
August 28, 2017
PMC Continues to Expand its Role as a Repository for Federally and Privately-funded Research
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)
January 19, 2017
PMC Bulk Download via FTP is Now Using New Naming Conventions
August 17, 2016
New Search Result Filters and Updated Reference List Display
find open access articles (PMC has more than 1.35 million open access articles that can be reused according to their license statements), explore PMC's rich historical content from NLM's back issue digitization project , browse research supported by PMC-participating funding organizations (click "Customize" to view additional funder options), and much more.
August 01, 2016
FTP service update to improve access to text mining collections
oa_package - article packages for individual OA articles oa_pdf - individual PDFs for OA articles oa_bulk - bulk packages of text from OA articles manuscript - author manuscripts collected under a funding agency's public access policy historical_ocr - select OCR texts from the PMC Back Issue Digitization project
March 24, 2016
Public Access Expansion and PMC
Agency for Healthcare Research Quality (AHRQ/HHS) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC/HHS), Food and Drug Administration (FDA/HHS), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)
Administration for Community Living (ACL/HHS) Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR/HHS) Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
January 11, 2016
NIH Author Manuscripts Available for Text Mining
December 15, 2015
Updated PMC journal review process and minimum requirements
November 23, 2015
CC0 Filter Now Available
February 05, 2015
Full text now available for OA subset articles, in plain text format
ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/articles.txt.0-9A-B.tar.gz ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/articles.txt.C-H.tar.gz ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/articles.txt.I-N.tar.gz ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/articles.txt.O-Z.tar.gz
November 18, 2014
Citation Exporter Feature Now Available
March 28, 2014
PMC Advisory Committee Meeting to be Held in June
February 24, 2014
Three Million Articles are Now in PMC!!
November 18, 2013
PMC Releases New ID Converter
November 18, 2013
New Version of NCBI Handbook is Released
September 04, 2013
New Version of PubReader is Released
August 15, 2013
A New PMC Mailing List and RSS Feed
August 05, 2013
Search for Open Access Articles by License
July 17, 2013
JATS-Con 2013 Program is Now Available
April 22, 2013
Keep Better Track of PMC Features
April 19, 2013
New OA Web Service for PMC
February 01, 2013
KoreaMed Synapse Adds PubReader as a Display Option
February 01, 2013
PMC Advisory Committee Appoints New Members
December 11, 2012
PubReader - A New Presentation Style for PMC
November 05, 2012
UKPMC Rebranded as Europe PMC
August 22, 2012
JATS Becomes NISO Standard
July 13, 2012
A Facelift for PMC
July 12, 2012
New Version of PMC Help is Released
March 26, 2012
JATS-Con Dates Announced for 2012!
February 29, 2012
PMC Advisory Committee Appoints New Members
July 12, 2011
JATS-Con is Coming!
June 20, 2011
The PMC 10th Anniversary Video is now on YouTube!
June 14, 2011
PMC Advisory Committee to Meet at NLM
May 26, 2011
A Brand New Look for PMC!
February 28, 2011
Ten Years After: PMC Milestone Featured in
February 17, 2011
New Members Appointed to PMC Advisory Committee
September 14, 2010
A New Look and Feel for PMC's Public Access Page
June 25, 2010
PMC Hits Two Million Mark!!
June 17, 2010
First-Ever Journal Article Tag Suite Conference (JATS-Con) to be Held in November 2010
April 29, 2010
PMC Canada's Manuscript Submission System Goes Live!
February 24, 2010
New Members for PMC Advisory Committee
November 16, 2009
New URLs in PMC
Figure 1 - Old URL for Journal Page with CGI Script Name
Figure 2 - New URL for Journal Page with Journal Number
Figure 3 - Canonical and Ancillary URLs for the Same Full-Text Article
Figure 4 - Table Display of all New URLs
October 28, 2009
PMC Now Offers a "Preview" Table of Contents for Embargoed Issues
October 21, 2009
PMC Canada is Launched!
October 01, 2009
PMC Adds New Page on Public Access
July 24, 2009
New Search Function Released
July 06, 2009
PMC Canada to Start in Fall 2009
June 16, 2009
PMC Advisory Committee Meets at NLM
May 19, 2009
New Version of PubMed Central Journal List Released
An Expanded View of PMC journals that includes NIH Portfolio Special Collections A New "Participation Level" Journal Category Hide/Show Display Option for Predecessor Titles Article and Journal Search Feature