A meeting is taking place at BMA House at 2pm today to launch a WHO
initiative which will provide access to online medical information in the
world's poorest countries. Full details will be available following the
meeting but briefly it is that the six largest medical publishers
(including Elsevier and Springer) have agreed to make their entire online
medical archive available free of charge to WHO approved institutions in
the world's 60 poorest countries, and at deep discounts to the 60
next-poorest. The deal has been brokered largely through the good offices
of BMJ Publishing.
WHO Director Dr Brundtland will be here to launch the project.
Tony McSean
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