The Research Information Network and Universities UK have produced a guide [PDF] to provide advice on paying open access publication charges. Recommendations are made for each of the key players involved in the scholarly communication chain – higher education institutions, publishers, funder and authors. With regard to authors (researchers) the report makes the following recommendations: […]

Papers published by the American Chemical Society (ACS) under their Open Choice option are now available in PMC and UKPMC. Currently around 110 papers – drawn from 20 ACS journal titles – are now freely available. These papers can be found by running the following search on UKPMC: ACS Author Choice [filter] All future papers […]

Users of the UK PubMed Central Manuscript Submission System (UKMSS) will soon be able to use a new service – ‘My UKPMC’ – to report on the outcomes of any grant funded by any one of the UKPMC Funders’ Group member organisations. Grantholders will be able to export these grant reports not only in standard […]

Each of the eight funders associated with UKPMC has a Funders Home Page from which you can find all papers in UKPMC which are associated with any of these funding bodies. In addition to be able to view these full-text articles, the article metadata can be exported in csv or xml. This metadata can also […]

As reported by Jennifer McLennan (Association of Research Libraries) on the SPARC-OpenData mailing list: 2009 Consolidated Appropriations Act ensures NIH public access policy will persist Washington, D.C. – March 12, 2009 – President Obama yesterday signed into law the 2009 Consolidated Appropriations Act, which includes a provision making the National Institutes’ of Health (NIH) Public […]

Papers published in the Bulletin of the History of Medicine, for which an author-pays fee has been paid, are now flowing directly in PMC. These papers should be mirrored to UKPMC within the next 24 hours.

The American Thoracic Society – publishers of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, the American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology and the Proceedings of the American Thoracic Society – have modified their Open Access policy such that it is now fully compliant with the open access grant conditions developed by […]

The British Library – who, in collaboration with MIMAS, and EBI are responsible for managing the UKPMC service on behalf of the UKPMC Funders Group – have been busy over the last few weeks running workshops and other events to begin the task of alerting the life sciences research community (and soliciting their input) to […]

Authors publishing research in European Journal of Human Genetics (EJHG) can now opt to make their articles open access. Read the full press release from Nature Publishing Group.

The Company of Biologists (COB) – publishers of Development and Journal of Cell Science – has announced a new policy in which papers published by researchers funded by the Wellcome Trust or the Medical Research Council will be automatically deposited in PMC (and mirrored to UKPMC). The Company of Biologists will deposit the final version […]

UK PubMed Central(UKPMC) is the the UK’s online digital archive of full-text, peer-reviewed research publications in the life sciences. This blog has been created as a way of alerting researchers to: new service developments at UK PubMed Central changes to publisher policies in terms of open access and self-archiving relevant news from the open access […]