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PubMed Central News – Changes and new journals in PubMed Central

• 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 […]
• Preview of Upcoming Changes to PMC's eFetch Output
  In April 2025, the data formats for PMC articles available through eFetch will be updated as part of NLM's ongoing efforts to modernize its products and services. While most of the data will remain unchanged, there are several key differences in the XML and PubMed (formerly MEDLINE) data formats that we'd like to highlight for users. (Learn more ab […]
• PMC Transitions to Updated Website
  On October 16, 2024, NLM's NCBI transitioned to an updated PubMed Central (PMC) website, representing the next step in ongoing efforts to modernize NLM's products and services. As part of this update, the primary URL for the PMC website has changed from ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc to pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. In addition, you'll notice a new look, feel, […]
• PMC Tagging Guidelines Accessibility Updates
  The PMC Tagging Guidelines (TG) were updated on October 7, 2024, to provide new guidance for PMC data providers on how to deposit accessible article information using Journal Article Tag Suite (JATS) XML. This guidance aligns with accessibility recommendations from JATS for Reuse, a working group under NISO. This recommendation bases its set of tagging best […]