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PubMed Central News – Changes and new journals in PubMed Central

• Updates to PMC's ESearch and EPost E-utilities APIs Coming in Early February
  PubMed Central (PMC) will be moving to updated versions of the ESearch and EPost E-utilities APIs in early February. These updated versions will use the same technology as the updated PMC website search which was released in September 2025. This means search results returned by the updated ESearch API will match those of the PMC website. If you manage code t […]
• Updated Full-Text Search Now Available
  As previously announced, NCBI has updated the PubMed Central (PMC) full-text search functionality and user experience. To prepare for this transition, a Beta version was released in April for users to preview and test, and a number of improvements were made based on user feedback. NCBI will continue to add to and improve the new search, with priorities based […]
• PMC OAI-PMH API Updated
  The PMC OAI-PMH API, a tool that allows users to retrieve metadata in Dublin Core or JATS XML for all articles in PMC, has been updated and is now in production at a new base URL. Full text XML is also available through this API for articles in the PMC Open Access Subset. See the PMC OAI-PMH API documentation for details about the changes.
• Updates in Support of the 2024 NIH Public Access Policy
  The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM) has made initial updates to several offerings to support NIH-funded researchers and institutions to comply with the 2024 NIH Public Access Policy, which went into effect July 1, 2025. NCBI will continue to make ongoing improvements over the coming months. These […]
• PubMed Central's Updated Full-Text Search Preview Now Available
  As the next step in the ongoing modernization of the PubMed Central (PMC) website, NCBI is updating the PMC search functionality and user experience. In preparation for a planned transition to this updated search later this year, NCBI has released a beta version for you to preview and provide feedback on. Click the "Try this search in PMC Beta Search […]