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PubMed Central

repository of freely accessible biomedical journal articles
Organization Digital Library Q229883

Facts

17 properties

Identity

Instance of
digital library, bibliographic database, medical database, open-access repository[2][3][4]
Official website
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov, pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov[12][13]
Short name
PMC[20]

Status and dates

Inception
2000[11]

Relations

Owned by
United States National Library of Medicine, National Center for Biotechnology Information[6][7]
Part of
PubMed[9]
More facts +11
Language of work or name
English[10]
Access restriction status
open access
Collection or exhibition size
9,700,000 scholarly article, 10,700,000 scholarly article[16][17]
Described by source
Open Science Thesaurus, The varying openness of digital open science tools[14][15]
Developer
National Center for Biotechnology Information[8]
Different from
Europe PubMed Central, BioMed Central[21][22]
Has part(s) of the class
PMCID[23]
Main Wikidata property
P12834, P932[18][19]
Maintained by
National Center for Biotechnology Information[5]
Number of records
10.8M (9.7M–10.8M, n=3)[24]
On focus list of Wikimedia project
WikiProject COVID-19, WikiProject Open access, Cultural Heritage and GLAM catalogues
🏷️ Also known as
ar مستودع الطب للعموم fa پاب‌مد سنترال hi पबमेड सेंट्रल ja PMC ja パブメド・セントラル ko 펍메드 센트럴 sv Pubmed central th พับเม็ดเซ็นทรัล tr ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc zh 公共医学中心 zh 公共醫學中心 zh 美国公共医学中心
🔖 Identifiers · 15
ISNI
0000000105086948
VIAF cluster ID
262505332
Library of Congress Authorities ID
no00088269
OpenAlex ID
S2764455111
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
PubMed Central review search.png ↗
Canadiana Name Authority ID
ncf11112477
FAST ID
1934921
Freebase ID
/m/08200f
GitHub topic
pubmed-central
GitLab.com topic ID
pubmed+central, pmc
NL CR AUT ID
ko2009549473
OpenDOAR ID
267
Show all 15 identifiers +3
Quora topic ID
PubMed-Central
Wellcome Collection concept ID
n2tcsc65
Yale LUX ID
group/18b9b4fe-ae1e-405e-ae7a-42a90704f45b

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Summary

PubMed Central is a digital library[1].

Body

Ownership

Owners include United States National Library of Medicine[6], a national library[25], in United States[26], founded in 1836[27], headquartered in Bethesda[28] and National Center for Biotechnology Information[7], a research institute[29], in United States[30], founded in 1988[31], headquartered in Bethesda[32].

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . Library of Congress Name Authority File. Retrieved . pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . Library of Congress Name Authority File. Retrieved . pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Retrieved . pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . data.loterre.fr. Retrieved . data.loterre.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Retrieved . pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] ↑ . ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [25] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [26] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [27] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [28] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [29] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [30] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [31] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  8. [32] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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