The Future of PubMed Central: Publicly Accessible, Digitally Equitable, Universally Valuable

This International Open Access Week, NLM shares its commitment to digital accessibility of and equitable access to PubMed Central’s (PMC) 10+ million biomedical articles. For one, NLM is collaborating with people who use assistive technologies to refine article displays—just one of the many recent updates to PMC.

Carrying the Momentum from a Year of Open Science Forward in 2024

NLM has a robust history of adopting and expanding open science practices—long before the term “open science” was first coined. As we look back on the 2023 Year of Open Science, we break down the Federal Government’s definition of “open science” to see how we strengthened our commitment.

A Celebration of Open Access for All

Open Access Week raises awareness of open access, fosters discussions about open scholarship, and encourages new ways to promote knowledge sharing. In honor of Open Access Week, let’s dive into some of the ways that NLM supports open access all year long!

A Year of Open Science, A Lifetime Commitment for NLM

"You might be thinking that providing access to research products and processes sounds a lot like what NLM does," writes Dr. Lisa Federer in this week's blog, "and you’d be right!" Learn how NLM advances open science, a concept at the heart of what NLM has been doing since its founding nearly 200 years ago.