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**PubMed Central Overview**:
– E-biomed proposed by Harold Varmus in May 1999.
– Launched in February 2000, aiming to provide free access to all biomedical research.
– Developed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information.
– Contains over 5.2 million articles as of December 2018.
– Repository designed to make NIH-funded research freely accessible.

**PMC Features and Adoption**:
– Digital repository for open access full-text scholarly articles.
– Rapid growth due to the NIH Public Access Policy.
– Many publishers cooperating to provide free access.
– Author-initiated deposits exceeded 103,000 papers from Jan 2013 to Jan 2014.
– Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2008 required NIH policy modification.

**PMC Technology and Inclusion Policy**:
– Articles submitted in XML or SGML by publishers.
– Conversion to NLM Archiving and Interchange DTD.
– US government mandated open access to research through PMC.
– PubMed Central requires complete electronic copies of peer-reviewed research from NIH-funded projects.
– Articles must be included within 12 months of publication.

**PMC Reception and Impact**:
– Varied reactions from the scholarly community.
– PMC enhances discovery and dissemination of biomedical knowledge.
– Positive feedback from libraries, universities, and patient rights organizations.
– Open access papers show greater research impact in certain fields.
– Concerns about traffic diversion and economic consequences.

**PMC Identification and Related Platforms**:
– PMCID is a unique identifier for PubMed Central.
– Required in NIH award applications for traceability.
– Europe PubMed Central, JATS, MEDLINE, and PubMed Central Canada are related platforms.
– Redalyc and SciELO are similar projects focused on Latin America.
– Provides additional resources and related platforms for research.