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Journal

A Journal is associated with a Publication. In some cases, the Journal may be important for determining whether the User needs to manually create a Submission through PASS or whether the publisher has a pre-existing arrangement with the target Repository. Specifically, in the case of the National Institutes of Health Public Access Policy, many Journals already make arrangements to submit the author’s accepted manuscript to PubMed Central directly.

Field Type Description
id* String Autogenerated identifier of object
journalName* String Name of the journal
issns String[] Journal ISSNs - Elements are of the form type:value, where type is one of Online or Print, and value is the usual ISSN value xxxx-xxxx. Examples would be Online:1234-5678 and Print:9876-5432. When a type for an ISSN is not known, it should be stored with an empty type (for example :2468-1357).
nlmta String National Library of Medicine Title Abbreviation
pmcParticipation String This field indicates whether a journal participates in the NIH Public Access Program by sending final published article to PMC. If so, whether it requires additional processing fee (see list below)

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PMC Participation options

These are the possible submission methods relating to PMC deposits. A full description of these methods can be found on the NIH public access website

Value Description
A PMC deposit route A. Journals automatically post the paper to PMC
B PMC deposit route B. Authors must make special arrangements for some journals and publishers to post the paper directly to PMC
C PMC deposit route C. Authors or their designee must submit manuscripts to NIHMS
D PMC deposit route D. Some publishers will submit manuscripts to NIHMS