PubMed Central (PMC)
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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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- 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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- pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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