NCBI Entrez - efetch from PMC returns only abstract

Question

[chaniart]

Hi everybody

I'm trying to fetch an article from NCBI - PMC, and all I get is the abstract.

How can I get the full text?

The code in python: handle = Entrez.efetch(db="PMC", id="PMC4899263", rettype="full", retmode="xml") (PMC4899263 is the id of the article I'm trying to fetch - and only receive the abstract)

It did work perfectly fine with PMC4756107, and I got the full review.

Do you have any idea why is it happening?

Thank in advance Chany

[zoldello]

What attribute has the full text-content?

Answer 1

[Jean-Karim Heriche]

The article is not freely available. Full texts may be available as authors may have to submit a pre-publication version to satisfy funding sources open access requirements but these are not made available to efetch as it seems that full text is only made available for truly open access papers. If efetch doesn't work, you can try finding the paper on the PMC ftp site.

[chaniart]

Thank you! How can I fetch it from there? Meaning using a program, not manually.

[Jean-Karim Heriche]

Actually, reading the page on the link I gave, it would seem that the ftp site also only has full text for full open access papers.
FTP is an internet protocol. So to programmatically query an ftp site, write a script using your favorite programming language's implementation or use your shell's ftp command.