{"id":11110,"date":"2023-04-18T15:49:10","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T19:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncbiinsights.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/?p=11110"},"modified":"2023-04-18T15:49:10","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T19:49:10","slug":"pmc-as-an-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncbiinsights.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/2023\/04\/18\/pmc-as-an-archive\/","title":{"rendered":"Putting Content into Context: Clarifying PubMed Central’s Role as an Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"
The role of a library in a digital world continues to evolve and expand. NLM\u2019s PubMed Central<\/a> (PMC) has a large and diverse user base that includes students and the public, as well as researchers, clinicians, and librarians. We recognize that these different audiences have varying levels of familiarity with PMC as an archive of literature published by other organizations, as well as with NLM, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the scholarly publishing process. That\u2019s why we recently updated how we describe, display, and share articles in PMC to provide our users with more context and help them more accurately cite the correct source of an article made available in PMC. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n In line with this <\/span>article <\/span>display update, NLM <\/span>is also updating<\/span> the <\/span>default social media display <\/span>when articles from PMC are shared to include <\/span>additional context (Figure 2)<\/span>.<\/span> Th<\/span>is<\/span> change will be reflected <\/span>on social media<\/span><\/span> p<\/span><\/span>latforms<\/span> in <\/span>the <\/span>coming weeks.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span> Figure 2: New contextual note that will display when PMC articles are shared on social media.<\/em><\/p>\n 2. A new infographic has been added to several PMC documentation pages showing the different types of content that are in PMC and how each fit into the scholarly publishing process (Figure 3). The nearly 9 million articles in PMC span the scholarly publishing cycle, including those that have been formally published in a scholarly journal, author manuscripts that have been peer-reviewed and accepted for publication in a journal, and preprint versions of articles that have been made public prior to peer review. This content is deposited in the PMC archive through collaborations with publishers, societies, research funders, and international organizations. (See our Collections<\/a> page for an overview of the results of these content collaborations.) Figure 3: Updated infographic that clarifies how PMC content fits within the scholarly publishing process.<\/em><\/p>\n As always, if you have any questions or comments about PMC, you can email us at pubmedcentral@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov<\/a>\u00a0 or leave feedback on the yellow feedback button on the site.<\/p>\n *******<\/p>\n PubMed Central\u00ae (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the National Institutes of Health\u2019s National Library of Medicine (NIH\/NLM). In keeping with NLM\u2019s legislative mandate to collect and preserve the biomedical literature, PMC is part of the NLM collection, which also includes NLM\u2019s extensive print and licensed electronic journal holdings and supports contemporary biomedical and health care research and practice as well as future scholarship.\u00a0Learn more here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The role of a library in a digital world continues to evolve and expand. NLM\u2019s PubMed Central (PMC) has a large and diverse user base that includes students and the public, as well as researchers, clinicians, and librarians. We recognize that these different audiences have varying levels of familiarity with PMC as an archive of … Continue reading Putting Content into Context: Clarifying PubMed Central’s Role as an Archive<\/span> Here are the updates made to PMC:<\/h5>\n
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Figure 1. New contextual note appears above PMC articles on the desktop and mobile sites.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n
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