How can a journal be sure that PubMed Central will not alter the substance or meaning of submitted content?
PubMed Central does not change the content of submitted articles in any way. Experience to date suggests that participation in PMC may actually improve the quality of a journal’s digital archival record, because PMC does an independent check of the accuracy of the XML/SGML and related files. The initial setup for a journal in PMC involves a thorough automated and manual review of the journal’s content to ensure the accuracy of the material. The publisher is also asked to review its content in PMC before a journal is released to the public initially. PMC’s checking includes a comparison of the content in PMC to that at the journal’s own web site and/or to the PDF version of the journal’s articles. When discrepancies are found, the publisher is asked to provide corrected files to PMC, precisely because PMC does not want to make any changes to the publisher’s content itself. Content deposited after the journal is live in PMC is verified and corrected in a similar manner. PMC’s approach to
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