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PMC Article Previewer

The PMC Article Previewer is a great way to preview your articles to see how they will appear in PMC. The Previewer will also test whether your XML tagging generates warnings or errors. It runs many of the same processes that are used in the PMC production workflow.

Get Started

With it you can:

What it can't do:

The process is now easier:

Drag and drop or browse to select at least one XML, TAR, TGZ or ZIP file to upload.

The page will automatically refresh with updates as the article is uploaded and processed. Errors and warnings will be displayed as necessary.

Click on the article title to preview, or click the Errors/Warnings links to view them.

Requirements and Restrictions

Problems? Questions?

Why hasn't my article converted after 30 minutes?

If your article hasn't converted after 10-15 minutes and it's just XML, look for a warning or error message. If you have lots of images, be patient. If that doesn't help, contact PMC. Please provide the TM Session ID that will appear in your Warning or Error message.

How is a warning different from an error?

A warning doesn't stop your article from previewing, but it might be giving you some tagging guidance that could be useful for finding problems or improving your tagging. An error will stop an article from processing and previewing.

When I use the online the Style Checker, I don't get the same warnings and errors as here. Why not?

In the PMC Article Previewer and in the PMC production workflow, all articles are first converted to our in-house "flavor" of JATS. The Style Checking is done after the in-house conversion. This allows us to account for different tagging rules, while giving us standard XML that we can use for presentation on the Web.

PMC can be contacted with questions about the PMC Article Previewer at pmc@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.

Supported Schemas

PMC supports all the schemas below. In the PMC Article Previewer and in the PMC production workflow, all articles are first converted to our in-house "flavor" of JATS. The preview shown in the PMC Article Previewer is based on the converted XML. The Style Checking is done after the in-house conversion.

Last modified: Thu Jan. 7 2021