PubMed Commons

Limited-details version

Self-archived content is available for download via the following links: PDF versions as a .zip file ⧉ or complete HTML versions as a .zip file ⧉. A permanent, immutable, and independently-generated version of the main page containing all my PubMed Commons content is available via the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine , but all URLs in my commentaries were altered by the archiving service (see detailed version for more information). The site PubPeer also transferred all PubMed Commons content to its site, though there is no easy way to see all my PubMed Commons commentaries in one place on PubPeer.

Detailed version

Unfortunately, in early 2018, the United States National Library of Medicine (NLM) announced it was going to discontinue PubMed Commons (original URL , archived version ). Although many pleaded for PubMed Commons to continue (see the comments associated with those links), the NLM continued with its plan to discontinue PubMed Commons. The NLM also said all content would be available via the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) website. However, all that showed as of 2018 March 1 was a rather inconvenient .csv file, so I archived my PubMed Commons content and created this page to serve as a record of sorts.

For the main page that used to display my PubMed Commons content, I used the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, and the archived page can be accessed on their site here .

The Wayback Machine correctly captures my PubMed Commons content for the most part. Importantly, however, all links contained in my PubMed Commons content were edited by the Wayback Machine to have “https://web.archive.org/web/20180301171916/” at the beginning of the actual URL, so some of the links in the commentaries may no longer work. Additionally, the Wayback Machine could not correctly capture the individual PubMed entries where my PubMed Commons content appears in context (with the article in question). Therefore, prior to PubMed Commons being retired, I created .zip archives containing both PDF versions ⧉ and complete HTML file versions ⧉. Interested users can verify the PDF or complete HTML versions of individual pages against the Wayback Machine version of the main page, as the main page still contains the individual content (again, however, please appreciate the URL alteration described above that was caused by the Wayback Machine’s archiving process).

PubPeer also transferred all PubMed Commons content to its site, though there is no easy way to see all my PubMed Commons commentaries in one place on PubPeer.