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• BMJ Journals: Countries with Free Access
  "site contains full-text access to 25 journals published by the BMJ Publishing Group; access is available to ‘low income’ and ‘low middle income’ economies as defined by the World Bank; via IP address, Internet links from eligible countries automatically will have free access"
• Electronic Journal on Information Systems in Developing Countries
  "this site is an ejournal, not a directory, that contains many full text articles on the use information technology (IT) for health information; is an international forum for users to share their knowledge and experience in the design, development, implementation, management and evaluation of IT in developing countries"
• Electronic Journal Showcase - Medicine & Health
  "a selected list of free-to-all full-text general medical journals; most of them have no trial period stated by the publisher, and should be available permanently; a second column has links to back issues; includes 'search titles with PubMed links to fulltext articles' feature"
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  "the site is an extensive (400 plus), up-to-date linked listing of medical journals availiable electronically; it is organized by subject categories and alphabetical order in English and by language; the site is dedicated to the promotion of free access to medical journals over the Internet"
• Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative (HINARI)
  "provides access to 1,500 scientific publications for developing and transitional countries; participating publishers include Blackwell, Elsevier Science, the Harcourt Worldwide STM Group, Wolters Kluwer, Springer Verlag and John Wiley; access is by journal title, subject and language or link to the participating publishers' websites; institutions are required to register (see: http://www.healthinternetwork.org/src/registration.php or email: hinari@who.int)"
• Highwire: Free Access to Developing Economies
  "contains links to free access journals published online by HighWire Press including titles from the BMJ; access is for all countries that appear in the World Bank's list of "low income economies," plus Djibouti; individuals do not need to register since the software automatically detects the country you are connecting from and grants access accordingly"
• Instructions to Authors in the Health Sciences
  "an alphabetical listing of linking to WWW sites having instructions to prospective authors for hundreds of different journals in the health sciences"
• La Sante Tropicale sur Internet
  "French-language site dedicated to health issues in francophone Africa and Maghreb; features include access to pdf files of 1800 African medical articles from three of its journals - Medecine d'Afrique Noire, Medecine du Maghreb, and Odontologie-Stomatologie Tropicale; also recommends francophone African health web sites and a discussion forum; maintained by a France-based publisher NG COM SANTE TROPICALE"
• Licensing Digital Information: Developing Nations Initiatives
  "site identifies programmes that bring high quality, peer-reviewed sciences journals to developing and transitional countries for free or minimal cost; it is organized alphabetically by publisher/organization with links to information on access procedures and is maintained by Yale University Library, U.S."
• Medical Journals: Subject Index
  "extensive subject area listing to alphabetical list of links to journal homepages; includes Broad-coverage journals (eg JAMA, BMJ, NEJM), Nursing journals and Books on medical writing; from Science.komm"
• Medical Matrix: Journals and Newsletters
  "guide to clinical medicine journals, newsletters, news releases and reviews on the Internet; is a link from site's initial page"
• Medworld Research Corner: Biomedical and Clinical Journals Online
  "a comprehensive listing of medical journals on the Internet; for each journal, contains a brief summary and link to web site"
• Yahoo: Health/Medicine Journals
  "alphabetical, keyword and broad subject index of health and medicine journals with links to articles and abstracts"

• For indexes to full text ejournal articles, a subject based and/or alphabetical listing of linked ejournals, see also:
  Medical Ejournals - Indexes
• For an extensive list of links to free fulltext books, see

Last updated April 11, 2002

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