Welcome to PubMed Central (PMC), the U.S. National Library of Medicine's digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature, providing free access to the full text of articles.


To start searching, enter one or more search terms (such as topic, author or journal title) or visit the PMC Journal List to browse journal titles, holdings, and embargo information. Read PubMed Central Help for more information.

Want to keep posted on new journals included in PMC? Subscribe to the PMC News RSS feed for announcements of changes to PMC such as the addition of new journals.

Try PMC Canada, NLM's newest partner in the PMC International network. PMC Canada is sponsored by the Canadian government agencies CIHR and NRC-CISTI. CIHR NRC-CISTI Try UKPMC Beta. Redesigned site has single point of access for PubMed abstracts and PMC full-text articles, links to clinical guidelines and theses, and more...