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PubMed Central Canada Permanently Offline on February 23, 2018

PubMed Central Canada Permanently Offline on February 23, 2018. NLM Tech Bull. 2017 Nov-Dec;(419):b14.

December 19, 2017 [posted]

[Editor's Note: This is a reprint of an announcement from PubMed Central (PMC). To be notified of announcements like this subscribe to the PMC-Announce email list.] To be notified of announcements like this subscribe to the PMC-Announce email list.]

PubMed Central Canada (PMC Canada), sponsored by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), with operational support provided by the National Research Council (NRC), has been a valued partner in the PMC International network since 2009. CIHR and NRC notified the National Library of Medicine of their decision to permanently take PMC Canada offline on February 23, 2018. Details of this decision are available on the PMC Canada Web site.

The decision to decommission PMC Canada does not affect the status or operations of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Library of Medicine (NLM) PubMed Central (US) or Europe PubMed Central. PMC Canada content will remain in the PMC archive and be publicly searchable on the NIH/NLM PMC (US) and through Europe PMC. CIHR researchers who publish in journals that deposit their articles directly into the NIH/NLM PMC or deposit manuscripts co-funded with current PMC-participating funders will continue to be considered in compliance with the Tri-Agency Open Access Policy on Publications.

The NIH and NLM have appreciated our cooperation with CIHR and NRC over the last several years and will continue to identify new opportunities to work together to support open access and research excellence.