PMC Year in Review

As we kick off a new year, we wanted to take this opportunity to look back on 2017, which was a milestone year for PMC. Last year, PMC made nearly half a million articles available for the public to access with the support of participating journals, publisher programs, and research funders. Also, in addition to expanding support for public access to research results and the linking of those results to the underlying dataset(s), PMC released several other policy and resource updates. These include: Clearer statement of scope for PMC (see also the updated entry in the NLM Collection Development Manual for "Journals" ); Guidance for journals on reapplying to PMC; Policy statements on the scientific, editorial, and technical standards for PMC (including details on the journal reevaluation process), the supply of back content, the eligibility of non-English language journals, and the maintenance of publishing schedules; Production data requirements for PMC-participating journals; and Major update to the PMC Article Previewer, a tool that allows publishers to see or "preview" how articles will appear in PMC and resolve data problems prior to submission. In September, NLM recognized the achievements to date in the Wellcome Trust and NLM Biomedical Journal Digitization project, which has added a dozen new historical titles and more than a half million pages to the PMC archive. The PMC archive now includes content from as far back as the late 18th century. Many thanks all our participants and users for a wonderful year!