The small number of medical journals that provide their entire content free online will soon
be even smaller, and the loss will be significant. In August, the British Medical Journal …

The BMJ Publishing Group has for almost a year provided free access to the electronic
version of its 23 specialist journals to anybody in the 50 poorest countries in the world. 1(The …

Editor—I joined the BMA when it ran a principled campaign in opposition to Margaret
Thatcher's proposals for “reforming” the NHS. There have been other occasions when I have …

Only a dozen of these journals share bmj. com's policy of offering free access from the
moment of publication, but most open up their archives within a year of publication. This …

As recently as September 2000 a scientist from the World Health Organization wrote that
global inequity in access to the internet was greater than any other inequity. 1 Less than …

Three years ago, it was hard to find a medical journal on the internet. Now most have
websites, providing selections from their paper journals in electronic form. This week the …

The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has taken the first step to requiring that all
published papers that are based on research it supports financially will be made freely …

The Public Library of Science, which has been campaigning to produce free access
scientific research via the web, rather than conventional print publication, has obtained a $9 …

The digital revolution is far from over and continues to inflict heavy casualties. Kodak,
founded in 1889 and synonymous with amateur photography ever since, filed for bankruptcy …

Attempts to use the internet to free up access to the world's biomedical literature have
resulted in several similarly named initiatives emerging over the past two years. PubMed …