How do I find the PubMed Central ID or DOI for my paper?

If you have an identifier for your paper, we may be able to fetch the full text or abstract for you, but we can only do this if the paper has a PubMed Central ID or a DOI. In some cases, a paper may also have a PubMed ID which you can also use here.

You can find the PubMed Central ID for your paper, by searching PubMed Central with the title of your paper (or keywords, authors, etc.). The ID will be listed after PMCID. See the following example:

The DOI can usually be found on the electronic version of the paper from the publisher's website. The following example is a paper from BMC Bioinformatics and not all publishers follow the same format, but this example should give you an idea of what to look for.

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