PubMed Central officially went online in February, 2000 but in the past day or so, Marla Fogelman at the National Center for Biotechnology Information has put together an interesting and fact filled (with plenty of links) article about PubMed Cental's first decade in the NLM Technical Bulletin.
Here's one small section:
2003 also marked the beginning of another major PMC initiative — the back issue digitization of old journals, some dating as far back as the mid-1800s. In November 2004, the full run of the Journal of the Medical Library Association was completed, featuring volumes ranging back to 1911. The digitization project also got a major international boost, when, in that same year, the Wellcome Trust, in partnership with the United Kingdom Joint Information Systems Committee, became a collaborator — agreeing to provide both funding and early issues of significant British medical journals.
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