How can I be sure that an author-submitted manuscript that is a made available in UK PubMed Central was published in a peer-reviewed journal?
19.1 While any researcher can make a deposition of a research paper UKPMC+ they have to assign a principal investigator (PI) and a grant number(s) to that paper. Only a grant holder or fellow known to MRC (or another member of the UKPMC Funders Group), or their nominees, can authorise the paper to enter the PMC/UKPMC process (XML mark-up etc.). 19.2 Once the marked-up article has been authorised by the PI, this will be loaded into PMC and then mirrored to UKPMC. This paper will automatically become publicly available after the delay period (if any) has elapsed, and following a final check of the PubMed database to ensure that the submission does relate to a published paper in a peer-reviewed journal.
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