PMC Author Manuscript Dataset
The PMC Author Manuscript Dataset (“Dataset”) consists of all author manuscripts that have been made available in PMC in compliance with the NIH Public Access Policy or similar policies of other funders. The text of all manuscripts in the Dataset may be retrieved in XML and plain text formats using the retrieval methods described below. Author manuscripts with Creative Commons licenses also have PDF files, image files, and supplementary files available and are part of the PMC Open Access Subset.
- 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).
Retrieval Methods
August 26, 2026: PMC's Article Dataset Distribution Service Changes Are Complete
Changes to PMC's Article Dataset Distribution Service, first announced in February, are now complete. All legacy PMC Article Dataset files on the FTP and Cloud Services were removed the week of August 24, 2026.
For complete details about this transition, please see the NCBI Insights blog post and our documentation on Accessing PMC Article Datasets Using Amazon Web Services
The Author Manuscript Dataset is available via:
Terms of Use
For terms of use, please refer to the Author Manuscripts section of the PMC Copyright Notice.
How to Cite
- NIH NLM NCBI PubMed Central (PMC) Article Datasets - Full-Text Biomedical and Life Sciences Journal Articles on AWS was accessed on DATE from https://registry.opendata.aws/ncbi-pmc.