What types of material may be deposited in PubMed Central?
As an archive, PMC strives to collect and preserve everything that is published in a participating journal. It has a cover-to-cover digital copy of the early issues of a journal that came into PMC through NLM’s digitization program. For more recent material, which a journal must supply in XML or SGML form, PMC accepts any editorial content that can be represented accurately with the NLM Journal Publishing XML DTD or a compatible DTD. In this context, “editorial content” refers to articles and article-like items, including book reviews, news items and obituaries. PMC also accepts journal cover images and accompanying captions. In general, a participating journal must deposit in PMC the final, published version of an article as it appears on the journal’s own web site. However, in the instance where PMC serves as the repository for a funding agency’s access program, PMC will accept an author’s final, peer reviewed manuscript of an article. See Who may contribute to PubMed Central? Journa
