Improved access to biomedical journals. (Recent publications and sources of information).

The World Health Organization and the world's six biggest medical journal publishers have announced a new initiative which will enable close to one hundred developing countries gain access to vital scientific information that they otherwise could not afford. The arrangement would allow almost one thousand of the world's leading medical and scientific journals to become available through the Internet to selected medical schools and research institutions in developing countries based on tiered pricing.

Until now, biomedical journal subscriptions, both electronic and print, have been priced uniformly for medical schools, research centres and similar institutions …