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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)
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Journals deposit the complete contents of each issue or volume.
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Journals deposit all NIH-funded articles as defined by the NIH Public Access Policy.
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Selective Deposit Programs
Publisher deposits a subset of articles from a collection of journals.
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May 3, 2023
PMC Public Health Emergency Initiatives Update
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) recently renamed the COVID-19 and Mpox Public Health Emergency Initiatives as t…
April 19, 2023
Clarifying PMC's Role as an Archive
The role of what a library means in a digital world is evolving and expanding. PMC has a large and diverse user base tha…
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Second Phase of the NIH Preprint Pilot Launched

The second phase launched in January 2023 and expands the scope of the Pilot to include preprints resulting from all NIH-funded research.
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