PMC International (PMCI) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature. PMCI is a collaborative effort between the U.S. National Institutes of Health and the National Library of Medicine, the publishers whose journal content makes up the PMC archive, and organizations in other countries that share NIH's and NLM's interest in archiving life sciences literature.

Comment

Note that the Europe PMC instance redirects canonical local unique identifiers from https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3084216 to https://europepmc.org/article/PMC/3084216. However, this is an implementation detail and does not reflect the official format of a PMC identifier, which indeed does include PMC at the beginning of the local unique identifier

Prefix

pmc

Alternative Prefixes

PMCID PMC

Keywords

bibliography centrally registered identifier knowledge and information systems

Links

Homepage

Contact

Jeff Beck   0000-0002-1798-9797   jeffbeckncbi

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in PubMed Central should match this regular expression:
^PMC\d+(\.\d+)?$

Example Local Unique Identifiers

PMC3084216   Resolve
PMC7418728   Resolve
PMC7418728.1   Resolve
PMC7418728.2   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from PubMed Central should match this regular expression:
^pmc:PMC\d+(\.\d+)?$

Example CURIEs

pmc:PMC3084216
pmc:PMC7418728
pmc:PMC7418728.1
pmc:PMC7418728.2

Publications

• 2011 Database resources of the National Center for Biotechnology Information
• 2010 Database resources of the National Center for Biotechnology Information

References

GitHub Issue https://github.com/biopragmatics/bioregistry/issues/965

A summary of the relations in the Bioregistry schema can be found here.

In Collection

Publication Provenance Prefixes ASKEM Epidemiology Prefixes Global Biodata Coalition - Global Core Biodata Resources

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 8 mappings to external registries for this resource with 4 unique external prefixes.

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier PMC3084216 is used to demonstrate the providers available for PubMed Central. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.

Additional providers curated in the Bioregistry are listed here. These are typically inherited from Identifiers.org or Prefix Commons, and need extra curation.