Does PubMed Central include articles written in languages other than English?
Almost all the material now in PMC is in English. A few journals in PMC publish material in more than one language. For instance, CMAJ, the Canadian Medical Association Journal, has articles in French and English. In this case, only the English material appears in PMC’s primary presentation of an article — the HTML full-text display. However, the journal’s PDF version of the article, which is also available in PMC, may contain material in French as well as English. For older issues of the journal, which have been scanned under NLM’s digitization program, PMC has the complete contents of each issue. That includes articles published exclusively in French. In order to provide fuller coverage of non-English language material, PMC must be able to ensure proper validation of the archival XML record in these languages. NLM is considering possible collaborations with national agencies in other countries, as well as other methods, to obtain the non-English language expertise needed to provide a
