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December 10, 2015 by Gary Price

PubMed and PubMed Central Add New Filters to Limit Results to Only Creative Commons Licensed Materials

December 10, 2015 by Gary Price

From the National Library of Medicine Technical Bulletin:

Creative Commons (CC) licenses are types of copyright licenses that allow free distribution of a work. PubMed Central (PMC), the NLM archive of full text journal articles, includes articles that have a Creative Commons license or are in the public domain. The latter covers those articles authored by staff of U.S. government agencies.
NLM now offers a filter for both PubMed Central and PubMed to find articles with unrestricted Creative Commons or public domain (CC0) licenses:

PubMed Central: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/?term=cc0+license%5Bfilter%5D or add cc0 license[filter] to your search
PubMed: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=pmc+cc0+license%5Bfilter%5D or add pmc cc0 license[filter] to your search

These filters are based on license information that is provided to PubMed Central by publishers. There are many more articles cited in PubMed but not deposited in PMC that have CC0 licenses, but that information is not part of PubMed.

Direct to Complete NLM Post (Includes Screenshot)
Direct to PubMed Central Open Access Subset Info Page

Filed under: Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Journal Articles, Libraries, National Libraries, News, Open Access

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About Gary Price

Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.

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