According to one of the answered questions by NCBI Help Desk , we cannot "bulk-download" PubMed Central. However, can I use "NCBI E-utilities" to download all full-text papers in PMC database using Efetch or at least find all corresponding PMCids using Esearch in Entrez Programming Utilities? If yes, then how? If E-utilities cannot be used, is there any other way to download all full-text articles?
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According to one of the answered questions by NCBI Help Desk , we cannot "bulk-download" PubMed Central.
https://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/medline.html + https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/tools/openftlist/ will download a good portion of it (I don't know the percentage). It will indeed miss the PMC full-texts articles whose license doesn't allow redistribution as explained on https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/tools/openftlist/.
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