How comprehensive is the PubMed Central Open Access full-text database?

He, Jiangen; Li, Kai

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Title

How comprehensive is the PubMed Central Open Access full-text database?

Author(s)

• He, Jiangen
• Li, Kai

Issue Date

2019-03-15

Keyword(s)

• Database coverage
• PubMed Central open access
• PubMed

Abstract

The comprehensiveness of database is a prerequisite for the quality of scientific works established on this increasingly significant infrastructure. This is especially so for large-scale text-mining analyses of scientific publications facilitated by open-access full-text scientific databases. Given the lack of research concerning the comprehensiveness of this type of academic resource, we conducted a project to analyze the coverage of materials in the PubMed Central Open Access Subset (PMCOAS), a popular source for open-access scientific publications, in terms of the PubMed database. The preliminary results show that the PMCOAS coverage is in a rapid increase in recent years, despite the vast difference by MeSH descriptor.

Publisher

iSchools

Series/Report Name or Number

iConference 2019 Proceedings

Type of Resource

text

Language

eng

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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/103317

DOI

https://doi.org/10.21900/iconf.2019.103317

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Copyright 2019 Jiangen He and Kai Li

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