Academic publishing

The aim of the Directory of Open Access Journals is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals thereby promoting their increased usage and impact. The Directory aims to be comprehensive and cover all open access scientific and scholarly journals that use a quality control system to guarantee the content.

The Free Medical Journals Site is dedicated to the promotion of free access to medical journals over the Internet. Over the next few years, many important medical journals will be available online, free and in full-text. The access to free scientific knowledge will have a major impact on medical practice and attract Internet visitors to these journals. Journals that restrict access to their Web sites will lose popularity.

A peer-reviewed biomedical periodical, official publication of the Staff Society of Seth G. S. Medical College and K. E. M. Hospital, Mumbai, India, indexed with MEDLINE and EMBASE with free full-text access to articles from basic and clinical sciences.

The Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR; Medline-abbreviation: J Med Internet Res), founded in 1999, is the first international scientific peer-reviewed journal on all aspects of research, information and communication in the healthcare field using Internet and Intranet-related technologies. The Journal is indexed/abstracted in MEDLINE, ISA (Information Science Abstracts), and INSPEC.

Health information for the public, including access to the NLM databases like Medline

The Free Medical Journals Site was created to promote the free availability of full text medical journals on the Internet. Provides links to these journals' sites

Listing of all journals from this publisher with access status

A medical portal is the logical next step What a remarkable year it has been for those of us monitoring changes in the global information landscape. Since last Christmas, there has been a flurry of activity: the digitisation of the world's libraries began in earnest (despite the copyright fracas) open access publishing gained much-needed support internationally (especially in science and medicine) and Google, MSN Search, and Yahoo introduced a number of customisation tools for desktops and mobiles, podcasts, blogs, and video searches.1 2

This Congress, organized by JAMA and the BMJ Publishing Group, will feature 3 days of presentations of original research. As before, we urge scientists, editors, publishers, and readers who are interested in the processes by which science is published to get going on their research. The aim is to improve the quality and credibility of biomedical information and to help advance the efficiency, effectiveness, and equitability of information dissemination throughout the world. For more information contact Annette Flanagin phone: 312-464-2432 e-mail: jama-peer@jama-archives.org.

The African information and research community is set to receive a major boost as the National Inquiry Services Centre (NISC) South Africa takes over management of African Journals OnLine (AJOL).