In response to the new National Institute of Health (NIH) Public Access Policy requirement that any researcher, scientist, company submitting a proposal or a report to the NIH must include the PubMed Central (PMC) of cited references. Changes have been implemented and tested and will be released in version 1.3.0.
CiteSmart users won’t have to do anything (unlike with other programs), except get the latest version of CiteSmart. We have created a NIH style for grant and report writing. Use it (or create your own), make sure you are online when creating the bibliographic index (as PMC number - also called PMCID - resolution happens in real-time at the time of creation of the bibliographic index).
CiteSmart goes even further: in your word document: the PMCID (or PMID if a reference is in PubMed but not in PMC), will be linked to the online record. When one mouses over the link, the last sentences of the abstract are displayed in your word document. We are preparing a video. Stay tuned.
What is PubMed? what is PMC? why I am concerned?
PubMed is the online repository of the NIH’s National Library of Medicine (NLM), that all scientists in biology and in other fields use. PMC is a repository of free full text articles (that are also indexed in PubMed). These articles are free as authors are usually charged to have their article publicly available and most of the time retain the copyrights of their articles. This is a requirement for any NIH sponsored research as knowledge gained from publicly funded research, should also be made public.
You are concerned only if:
- You are in the United States of America
- Your research is funded by the NIH and/or
- You intend to apply to various NIH grants