Introduction to PubMed Central

Presenter(s) Information

Emily Hamstra, Network of the National Library of Medicine, Region 5Follow

Presentation Type

30-minute Presentation/Panel

Description

PubMed Central (PMC) is a database of over 6 million free, full-text articles from the 1700s to the present in the biomedical sciences. PMC is maintained by the National Library of Medicine and is freely available online (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/). PMC includes Open Access articles, preprint articles, author manuscripts, and more. This presentation will explore how to use PMC, cover content you can expect to find in PMC, discuss and define Open Access articles, preprint articles, and author manuscripts in PMC, and will explain the relationship between PMC and the biomedical database PubMed.

Learning Outcomes

• Use PubMed Central (PMC) to find free, full-text articles in the biomedical sciences
• Describe the content within PMC, including Open Access articles, author manuscripts, and preprint articles
• Discuss the relationship between the biomedical databases PubMed and PMC

Rights

© 2022 Emily Hamstra

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Twitter Handle(s)

@nnlmregion5

Start Date

3-25-2022 10:00 AM

End Date

3-25-2022 12:20 PM

Persistent Identifier

https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/37521

Subjects

PubMed Central