Update: UK PubMed Central

2 February 2006

The Wellcome Trust - lead partner in a group of major UK biomedical research funding bodies (the UKPMC Implementation Group) - launched a tender process this week to identify a supplier to host, manage and develop a UK version of PubMed Central (UKPMC).

This announcement follows the Trust's move to a make it a condition of funding that all research is made freely available online.

Based on the US National Library of Medicine's PubMed Central, the aim of this initiative is to create a stable, permanent and free-to-access online digital archive of the full-text, peer-reviewed research publications (and datasets) that arise from the research funded by the UKPMC Implementation Group.

UKPMC will be fully searchable and provide context-sensitive links to other online resources, such as gene and chemical compound databases.

See also

• UKPMC tender process
• Open access (Spotlight issue, Policies and advocacy)
• Wellcome Trust and publishers reach agreement on open access (News: 15 December 2005)
• Open access to become a must for Wellcome Trust researchers (News: 29 September 2005)