PubMed Central Canada (PMC Canada) was a Canadian national digital repository of peer-reviewed health and life sciences literature. It operated from 2010 to 2018. It joined

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(formerly UK PubMed Central) as a member of the PubMed Central International network. PMC Canada was a partnership between the

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(CIHR), the Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (NRC-CISTI, the Canadian National Science Library), and the

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(NLM). PMC Canada included an interface in both English and French, to support the use of Canada's two official languages. PubMed Central Canada provided free access to content, and was one of the locations where CIHR researchers could deposit their peer-reviewed research articles, in order to meet with the

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requirements of the CIHR Policy on Access to Research Outputs.

Launch

The initial version of PubMed Central Canada launched in October 2009. The launch was timed to coincide with Open Access Week. The full launch of PMC Canada, including a manuscript submission system for CIHR researchers, was April 28, 2010.

Taken offline

On February 23, 2018, PubMed Central Canada (PMC Canada) was taken offline permanently. No author manuscripts were deleted, and the approximately 2,900 manuscripts authored by researchers funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) in the archive were copied to the National Research Council's Digital Repository over the coming months. These manuscripts along with all other content will also remain publicly searchable on

PubMed Central PubMed Central (PMC) is a free digital repository that archives open access full-text scholarly articles that have been published in biomedical and life sciences journals. As one of the major research databases developed by the National Center fo ...

and

, meaning such manuscripts will continue to be compliant with the Tri-Agency Open Access Policy on Publications.Tri-Agency Open Access Policy on Publications

References

External links

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CIHR and CISTI: Developing a Canadian PMC Repository
(PDF) - presentation by Geoff Hynes to CHLA 2008
HLWIKI International: PubMed Central Canada (PMCC)
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