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PubMed Central Open Access Subset (PMC OA)
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Updated Oct 29, 2026
About this dataset
Not all articles in PMC are available for text mining and other reuse, many have copyright protection, however articles in the PMC Open Access Subset are made available for download under a Creative Commons or similar license that generally allows more liberal redistribution and reuse than a traditional copyrighted work.
Data and resources (5)
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Query Interface - PubMed Central Open Access Subset (PMC OA)
The AWS RODA, PMC OAI service, the PMC FTP service and BioC API are the only services that may be used for automated downloading of PMC content. Systematic retrieval (or bulk downloading) of articles through any other automated process is prohibited.
Modified Jun 29, 2026
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PMC Article Datasets in the AWS Cloud
PubMed Central (PMC) has several datasets of articles hosted the cloud and listed in the Registry of Open Data on Amazon Web Services (AWS), all of which can be accessed freely, without charge, through either an HTTPS or S3 URL. The datasets of articles are organized on AWS based on their license…
Modified Jun 29, 2026
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Open Access (OA) Subset Individual Article Download (FTP)
Modified Jun 29, 2026
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OAI-PMH Service
The PubMed Central OAI-PMH service (PMC-OAI) provides access to metadata of all items in the PubMed Central (PMC) archive, as well as to the full text of a subset of these items. PMC-OAI is an implementation of the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH), a standard for…
Modified Jun 29, 2026
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BioC API for PMC
All the PubMed Central (PMC) Open Access articles are available in the BioC format. This provides a large number of full text research articles for text mining and information retrieval research. BioC is a simple format designed for straightforward text processing. These articles are available in…
Modified Jun 29, 2026