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Friday, January 23, 2009

Medical journal brings backfiles online with PMC

The Journal of the National Medical Association has brought its backfiles to 1909 OA on PubMedCentral. The journal was previously OA, but the journal's site only provides backfiles to 2008.

Update. See also this February 2 press release from the National Library of Medicine, PubMed Central Adds Historically Significant Journal of the National Medical Association (1909-2007) to Its Free Online Holdings:

In celebration of Black History Month, the National Library of Medicine is pleased to announce an important addition to PubMed Central (PMC), its free digital archive of full-text journal articles: the complete archive of the Journal of the National Medical Association (JNMA), which observes its centennial this year.

The National Medical Association (NMA), established in 1895, is the largest and oldest national organization representing African American physicians and allied health professionals in the United States. ... The archive currently represents over 77,000 digitized pages of issues, cover to cover, through 2007. Current content will be coming at a later date. ...