NLM Expands Access to Papers on Coronavirus.

The National Library of Medicine (NLM), part of the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md., is working on multiple fronts to aid in the COVID-19 response through new initiatives with the global publishing community and artificial intelligence researchers. NLM is expanding access to scientific papers on coronavirus for researchers, care providers, and the public. This work makes use of NLM's PubMed Central (PMC), a digital archive of peer-reviewed biomedical and life sciences literature. PMC currently provides access to nearly 6,000,000 full-text journal articles.

Following on a statement issued by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and science policy leaders from almost a dozen other nations, NLM has stepped up its collaboration with publishers and scholarly societies to increase the number of coronavirus-related journal articles in PMC, along with available data supporting them. Submitted publications will be made available in PMC as quickly as possible after publication, in formats and with needed permissions to support text mining.

To support this initiative, NLM is adapting its standard procedures for depositing articles into PMC to provide greater flexibility that will ensure coronavirus research...

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