National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)

PMC Open Access API (OA Service)

The PubMed Central Open Access API retrieves citation data, licensing details, and FTP download locations for Open Access articles in the PMC archive. Queries accept a PMC identifier and return structured XML with article metadata and links to full-text files in formats such as PDF and XML.

GitHub

Documentation

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documentation
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/tools/oa-service/

Other Resources

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rate-limits
https://kinlane.github.io/ncbi/rate-limits/pmc-oa.yml
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plans
https://kinlane.github.io/ncbi/plans/pmc-oa.yml

API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
name: PMC Open Access API (OA Service)
description: 'The PubMed Central Open Access API retrieves citation data, licensing details, and FTP download
  locations for Open Access articles in the PMC archive. Queries accept a PMC identifier and return structured
  XML with article metadata and links to full-text files in formats such as PDF and XML.

  '
image: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/favicon.ico
humanURL: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/tools/oa-service/
baseURL: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/utils/oa/oa.fcgi
tags:
- PubMed Central
- Open Access
- Literature
- PMC
properties:
- type: documentation
  url: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/tools/oa-service/
- type: rate-limits
  url: https://kinlane.github.io/ncbi/rate-limits/pmc-oa.yml
- type: plans
  url: https://kinlane.github.io/ncbi/plans/pmc-oa.yml
contact:
- FN: PMC Support
  url: https://support.nlm.nih.gov/support/create-case/