Last updated on May 16, 2023
Last updated on May 16, 2023
PubMedandPubMed Central are two different systems.
PubMed is a citation database. PubMed does not display the full text of articles but instead comprises more than 25 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites such as Science Direct.Publishers participating in PubMed electronically submit their citations toNational Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) prior to or at the time of publication.PubMed also provides links to biological resources, consumer health information, research tools, and more. There may be a charge to access some text or information.
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PubMed Central (PMC) is a free digital archive database of full-text scientific literature in biomedical and life sciences at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), developed and managed by NIH's National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) in the National Library of Medicine (NLM).PubMed Central provides openly available peer-reviewed scientific research.Please note: some full Open Access journals send all the articles to PMC regardless of funding source.In PMC there will be a link to the full text article published on Science Direct, accessible by clicking the header above the article title.
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You can read more details about Elsevier posting your article to PMC here.
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