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January 2007
UK PubMed Central (UKPMC) is now live and freely available.
Based on PubMed Central (PMC), the US National Institutes of Health free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature, UKPMC provides a stable, permanent, and free-to-access online digital archive of full-text, peer-reviewed research publications.
UKPMC is part of a network of PMC International (PMCI) repositories. PMCI is a collaborative effort between the US National Library of Medicine (NLM), the publishers whose journal content makes the NLM's interest in archiving life sciences literature.
The setup, maintenance and ongoing development of UKPMC is being funded by Arthritis Research Campaign, the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, the British Heart Foundation, Cancer Research UK, the Chief Scientist Office of the Scottish Executive Health Department, the Department of Health, the Joint Information Systems Committee, the Medical Research Council and the Wellcome Trust.
UKPMC is a service of the UKPMC Funders Group working in partnership with the British Library, University of Manchester and the European Bioinformatics Institute.
To date, the UKPMC database holds over 620 000 full-text articles (mirrored from PMC in the US), while the UK Manuscript Submission System (UKMSS) - which grantees can use when they need to self-archive their research papers - contains details of 15 000 grants awarded to over 8000 grantees.
September 2006
The Wellcome Trust, as part of a group of UK research funders [PDF 24KB], has announced that the contract to run UK PubMed Central (UKPMC) has been awarded to a partnership between the British Library, the University of Manchester and the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI).
Based on the PMC model currently used by the US National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health, UKPMC will provide free online access to the digital archive of published articles resulting from research paid for by any of the funding consortium.It will be fully searchable and extensively linked to other online resources.
Launch of the service is scheduled for January 2007. See the press release (31 July 2006) for further information.
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