Exploring PubMed as a reliable resource for scholarly communications services

• Published in: Journal of the Medical Library Association Vol. 107; no. 1; pp. 16 - 29
• Main Authors: Ossom Williamson, Peace, Minter, Christian I. J.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Medical Library Association 01.01.2019; University Library System, University of Pittsburgh
• Subjects: Abstracting and Indexing - standards; Biotechnology; Citations; Digital archives; Electronic publishing; Evaluation; Funding; Humans; Information Storage and Retrieval - standards; Internet; Librarians; Life sciences; Medical libraries; Medical publishing; Medical Subject Headings-MeSH; Medicine; MEDLINE; MEDLINE - standards; National libraries; National Library of Medicine (U.S.); Open access; Original Investigation; Periodicals as Topic - standards; Predatory Publishers; Public access; PubMed; PubMed - standards; PubMed Central; Quality; Reproducibility of Results; Scholarly communication; Scholarly Communication - standards; Scholarly Communications; Scholarly publishing; Technology application; United States; United States

Objective: PubMed’s provision of MEDLINE and other National Library of Medicine (NLM) resources has made it one of the most widely accessible biomedical resources globally. The growth of PubMed Central (PMC) and public access mandates have affected PubMed’s composition. The authors tested recent cla...