PubMed Central Archive

The PubMed Central Archive is an Digital Library that archives biomedical and other life science journal articles and literature.

• AKA: PMC, PubMed Central, National Library of Medicine Bibliographic Database.
• Context:
  • Website: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/
  • It contains Abstracts, citations, title, authors, MeSH indexing terms, etc., but does not contain the full text.
  • It has more than 12 million references to articles from more than 4600 journals.
  • It has 2000 completed references are added daily

  • It provides access to MEDLINE.PubMed is the NLM Web system that provides access to MEDLINE as well as a dozen other databases.
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • Google Scholar,
  • Semantic Scholar,
  • ACM DL,
  • arXiv,
  • SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS).
• See: PubMed, Medline, NCBI, PubMed ID, Search Engine.

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References

2019a

• (PMC, 2019) ⇒ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/about/intro/ Retrieved:2019-08-03.
  • QUOTE: PubMed Central(PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM). In keeping with NLM’s legislative mandate to collect and preserve the biomedical literature, PMC serves as a digital counterpart to NLM’s extensive print journal collection.

     PMC was developed and is managed by NLM’s National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).

2019b

• (Wikipedia, 2019) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PubMed_Central Retrieved:2019-8-3.
  • PubMed Central (PMC) is a free digital repository that archives publicly accessible full-text scholarly articles that have been published within the biomedical and life sciences journal literature. As one of the major research databases within the suite of resources that have been developed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), PubMed Central is much more than just a document repository. Submissions into PMC undergo an indexing and formatting procedure which results in enhanced metadata, medical ontology, and unique identifiers which all enrich the XML structured data for each article on deposit. Content within PMC can easily be interlinked to many other NCBI databases and accessed via Entrez search and retrieval systems, further enhancing the public's ability to freely discover, read and build upon this portfolio of biomedical knowledge. PubMed Central is very distinct from PubMed. PubMed Central is a free digital archive of full articles, accessible to anyone from anywhere via a web browser (with varying provisions for reuse). Conversely, although PubMed is a searchable database of biomedical citations and abstracts, the full-text article physically resides elsewhere (in print or online, free or behind a subscriber paywall)., the PMC archive contained over 5.2 million articles, with contributions coming directly from publishers or authors depositing their own manuscripts into the repository per the NIH Public Access Policy. Older data shows that from Jan 2013 to Jan 2014 author-initiated deposits exceeded 103,000 papers during this 12-month period. PMC also identifies about 4,000 journals which now participate in some capacity to automatically deposit their published content into the PMC repository. Some participating publishers will delay the release of their articles on PubMed Central for a set time after publication, this is often referred to as an "embargo period", and can range from a few months to a few years depending on the journal. (Embargoes of six to twelve months are the most common.) However, PubMed Central is a key example of "systematic external distribution by a third party" which is still prohibited by the contributor agreements of many publishers.

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