# PMC OAI-PMH API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/pubmed/pmc-oai-pmh-api/  
**Provider:** PubMed — https://apis.io/providers/pubmed/  
**Base URL:** https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/api/oai/v1/mh/  
**Documentation:** https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/tools/developers/

PMC OAI-PMH API is one of 10 APIs that [PubMed](https://apis.io/providers/pubmed/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include OAI-PMH, Metadata, Harvesting, PMC, and Interoperability. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

The PMC OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) API enables systematic harvesting of metadata for all PMC archive items and full text for licensed content. Follows the OAI-PMH 2.0 standard for interoperability with metadata aggregators and digital libraries.

## Machine-readable artifacts (3)

- **Documentation** — https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/tools/oai/
- **Plans** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/pubmed/refs/heads/main/plans/entrez-eutils.yml
- **FinOps** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/pubmed/refs/heads/main/finops/entrez-eutils.yml

## Other PubMed APIs (9)

- [PubMed Central OA API](https://apis.io/apis/pubmed/pubmed-central-oa-api/)
- [PMC BioC API](https://apis.io/apis/pubmed/pmc-bioc-api/)
- [PMC ID Converter API](https://apis.io/apis/pubmed/pmc-id-converter-api/)
- [PubMed History API](https://apis.io/apis/pubmed/pubmed-history-api/)
- [PubMed Info API](https://apis.io/apis/pubmed/pubmed-info-api/)
- [PubMed Links API](https://apis.io/apis/pubmed/pubmed-links-api/)
- [PubMed Retrieval API](https://apis.io/apis/pubmed/pubmed-retrieval-api/)
- [PubMed Search API](https://apis.io/apis/pubmed/pubmed-search-api/)
- [PubMed Summary API](https://apis.io/apis/pubmed/pubmed-summary-api/)

## Tags

OAI-PMH, Metadata, Harvesting, PMC, Interoperability

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