In October 2006 the Wellcome Trust become the world’s first research funder to develop an open access policy that required the research outputs, that arose from its funding, to be made freely available.

By running a search through UKPMC, then clicking on the RSS feed logo once your search results have been displayed, you can add a search as feeds in a bookmark to your browser. When new journals are added to UKPMC, the updates will alter your search (remember to refresh your browser rather than used cached contents) – you just click through to the title you want to link through from the feed, accessible from your browser’s bookmarks.

As part of the text-mining work being undertaken by European Bioinformatics Institutue [EBI] and The National Centre for Text Mining [NaCTeM], it is now possible to get a list of all chemicals cited in a full-text article at UKPMC and link through to Chemical Entities of Biological Interest (ChEBI) database for further information. By way of example, on viewing the article at http://ukpmc.ac.uk/abstract/PMC/PMC1828400

The Open Access subset of UKPMC articles – which as of October 7th 2010 contains around 195,000 full-text articles – can be downloaded via: http://ukpmc.ac.uk/ftp/oa The content are available as 20 zipped files, named according to the PMCID range that each zipped file contains. The files are updated weekly.

UKPMC users can now view counts and link through to Web of Science citation data for articles available via the UKPMC website. The UKPMC citations tab available on both the abstract and full text view of an article, already providing ‘cited by’ and ‘cites the following’ data, has been augmented by a WoS citation count, which links through to the full citation details on the WoS site.

An analysis of publication data for 2009 identifies a total 5263 Wellcome–attribured articles in PubMed, of which 2313 are freely available in UKPMC. This indicates an overall open access compliance figure of around 44%. Looking at the data more granularly, we can also see which journals are most used by Wellcome-funded authors.

You have probably used PubMed, or PubMed Central, the archive of full-text life sciences journals (both developed by the National Center for Biotechnology – NCBI, at the National Library of Medicine in the United States). Developed in close collaboration with NCBI, UK PubMed Central (UKPMC) offers, at its core, the very same as PubMed and PubMed Central – access to the widest range of free, peer-reviewed and quality assessed biomedical and

As of Wednesday 23rd June, the UK PubMed Central (UKPMC) Open Beta site will go into full production mode, replacing the ‘Classic’ service available at http://ukpmc.ac.uk. Unveiled at a showcase event at the British Library earlier this year, the UKPMC Beta site provides users with a single point of access to: 1.8 million+ full text, peer reviewed published journal articles covering all fields of biomedical and health research (the UK PubMed

At a recent PubMed Central National Advisory Committe meeting, David Lipman (Director of NCBI) gave a presentation on the current status of PubMed Central which included the following data: Over 1.9 million articles are available in PMC. (Expected to hit 2 million by end of June ’10); Participating journals: 640 full participants; 220 that participate through the NIH Portfolio;

Karger Publishers have introduced an open access option, known as “Author’s Choice”. In return for a fee of CHF 3,000, Karger will make an article freely available (at the time of publication) through http://www.karger.com/ , as well as depositing the final version directly into PubMed Central. Articles routed through this mechanism are licenced under the Creative Commons, Attribution, Non-commercial licence.