PubMed Central: PMC Open Access Subset

PubMed Central (PMC)

The PMC Open Access Subset includes journal articles and preprints that are made available under Creative Commons or similar licenses that allow more liberal redistribution and reuse than a traditionally copyrighted work. The PMC Open Access Subset is one part of the

PMC Article Datasets

.

Not all articles in PMC are available for text mining and other reuse.

The

PMC Cloud Service

,

PMC OAI-PMH Service

,

E-Utilities

and

BioC API

are the only services that may be used for automated retrieval of PMC content. Systematic retrieval (or bulk retrieval) of articles through any other automated process is prohibited.

License terms vary. Please refer to the license statement in each article for specific terms of use.

Users of this dataset are directly and solely responsible for compliance with copyright restrictions and are expected to adhere to the terms and conditions defined by the copyright holder (see the

PMC Copyright Notice

).

Search

Find all Open Access Subset articles in:

PMC with this search filter:

open access[filter]

PubMed with this search filter:

pubmed pmc open access[filter]

Learn about

additional search filters that restrict results to certain license types

.

Retrieval Methods

The PMC Open Access Subset articles and related metadata are available for retrieval via

Cloud Service

,

PMC OAI-PMH Service

,

E-Utilities

and

BioC API Service

.

Terms of Use

Within the PMC Open Access Subset articles are available for reuse, but license terms vary. Please refer to the license statement in easy article for specific terms of use.

How to Cite

NIH NLM NCBI PubMed Central (PMC) Article Datasets - Full-Text Biomedical and Life Sciences Journal Articles on AWS was access on DATE from https://registry.opendata.aws/ncbi-pmc.

Last modified: Mon Aug. 24 2026