PMC Collaborating with Publishers in Response to Mpox Public Health Emergency

On August 4, 2022, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) announced a coordinated call to action with the science and technology leaders of more than 20 countries, requesting that publishers voluntarily make mpox and other orthopox-related publications freely and immediately accessible in appropriate public repositories to support the ongoing public health emergency response efforts. The call specified that these articles be made available with broad reuse rights in both human- and machine-readable formats to allow access to full text content and metadata. Publishers have responded to the call by volunteering to make their relevant articles accessible in PMC in formats and under license terms that facilitate text mining and secondary analysis. PMC-participating publishers can email PMC at pmc-phe@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov to notify us of their interest in collaborating on this effort. For a list of current collaborators, help with querying mpox-related literature, and more information, please visit our Public Health Emergency Mpox Initiative webpage.