DIRECTORIES OF MEDICAL EJOURNALS

Compiled by Frank Stitt MBBS FRACP
Online Medical Education, Sydney, Australia

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"
"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"
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

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