National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) · Pricing Plans

Pmc Oa

The PMC Open Access API (OA Service) is free to use with no authentication required. It is intended for retrieving open-access article metadata and file locations from the PubMed Central archive.

Pmc Oa is the pricing profile for National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) on the APIs.io network.

It defines 1 plan, with named plans including Public (Free).

This profile was written by API Evangelist and has not been verified against a page the provider published; treat every figure as unconfirmed until a dated transcription replaces it.

Tagged areas include Bioinformatics, Genomics, Life Sciences, PubMed, and Sequences.

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Written by API Evangelist and not verified against a page the provider published. Treat every figure as unconfirmed until a dated transcription replaces it.
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Public (Free)

Free, unauthenticated access to Open Access article citation data, licensing information, and FTP file locations. Supports queries by PMCID with optional date range filtering.

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