PubMed Central Canada (PMC Canada) represents a partnership between the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the National Research Council's Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (NRC-CISTI), and the National Library of Medicine of the US. Pubmed Central ® Canada is Launched. The newest addition to the PubMed Central (PMC) International effort, PubMed Central Canada, is now publicly available (see Figure 1).PMC Canada is the result of a three-way collaborative effort by the National Library of Medicine ®, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), and the National Research Council's Canada Institute for … PubMed Central Canada & Faculty Perspectives: Open Access to Health Research at York University Rajiv Nariani Science Librarian, York University Libraries CLA 2012 National Conference 1st … PubMed Central Canada ceased operations in February 2018 and the database links no longer link to content. The last manuscripts are being accepted today (Friday, January 5, 2018). The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the National Research Council's Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information, and the US National Library of Medicine have partnered to create PMC Canada-a free digital archive of peer-reviewed health science research. You can view or request publications in science, technology, engineering and health, as well as from an online repository of NRC-authored research. From: National Research Council Canada The National Science Library (NSL) provides tools and services to access research from the National Research Council (NRC) and around the world. PubMed Central (PMC) is a free digital repository that archives open access full-text scholarly articles that have been published in biomedical and life sciences journals. Health to be made available on an OA site (PubMed Central) within twelve months of publication.4 The PMC Canada OAI service (CAPM-C-OAI), provides access to metadata of all items in the PMCl Canada archive, as well as to the full text of a large subset of these items.5 PMC Canada also provides the option to view the entire database (including Published in final edited form as: As one of the major research databases developed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), PubMed Central is more than a document repository. PubMed Central (PMC) Citations for PubMed Central (PMC) articles make up the second largest component of PubMed. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2010 December 20. The first element of the PMC Canada system-the search interface-was launched in October 2009. Now we have the announcement that PubMed Central (PMC) Canada will be closing in February 2018. PMC is a full-text archive that includes articles from journals reviewed and selected by NLM for archiving (current and historical), as well as individual articles collected for archiving in compliance with funder policies. Two reasons are given for the decision to shutter the service: PubMed Central CANADA Author Manuscript / Manuscrit d'auteur Healthc Q. PubMed Central Canada (PMC Canada) represents a partnership between the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the National Research Council's Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (NRC-CISTI), and the National Library of Medicine of the US.