What is UKPMC?
• Cancer Research UK is part of an initiative led by the Wellcome Trust (and in association with a number of other UK biomedical funders) to establish a UK version of PubMed Central (PMC). PMC is an archive of life science journal literature operated by the National Centre for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). Access to PMC is free and unrestricted via the Internet. • The contract to run UKPMC has been awarded to a partnership between the British Library, the University of Manchester and the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI). Cancer Research UK is a major funder of UKPMC. • The aim of this initiative is to create a stable, permanent and free-to-access digital archive of the full text, peer-reviewed research publications (and datasets) that arise from research funded by Cancer Research UK, the Wellcome Trust and other members of the UKPMC Funders Group. • UKPMC will comprise three key systems. • A mirror of the data held in PMC, subject to permission from those publishers that par
