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Free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal articles, including work funded by the US National Institutes of Health.

Before you rely on itNIH-funded manuscripts accepted from 1 July 2025 must appear in PMC immediately, but older NIH papers and articles deposited voluntarily by publishers can still be delayed by up to 12 months; note also that PubMed itself is mostly abstracts, not full text.

Where to get the actual full text in medicine and life sciences, rather than the abstract-only records you get from PubMed.Telebem editors

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Subjects
Medicine · Biology · Chemistry · Psychology
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PDF · Web
Languages
English
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millions of full-text articles
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US National Library of Medicine

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