This site provides access to IndMED, a bibliographic database of 75 Indian biomedical journals, and MedIND, a portal that contains links to fulltext articles in 38 journals indexed in IndMED. It also includes a database of journal holdings of major medical libraries in India, links to relevant websites and a mirror site for access to MEDLINE databases on the Indian sub-continent. http://indmed.nic.in/ The site is a comprehensive, up-to-date list of medical journals availiable free on the Internet. The list is organized into multiple subject categories, by alphabetical order and by language (French, Spanish, Portuguese). The site is dedicated to the promotion of free access to medical journals over the Internet. http://www.freemedicaljournals.com/ The site 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. http://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/devecon.dtl HINARI provides access to over 2800 scientific publications for developing and transitional countries. The participating publishers include Blackwell, BMJ, Elsevier Science, Harcourt, JAMA, Kluwer, Nature Publishing, New England Journal of Medicine, Oxford University Press, Springer Verlag, Taylor & Francis and John Wiley. The access is by journal title, subject and language or link to the participating publishers' websites. Also, there is access to various publishers' reference sources including the Cochrane Library, Encyclopedia of Life Sciences, Oxford Textbook of Medicine, etc. The site is accessible in English, French and Spanish. Institutions are required to register (see: http://extranet.who.int/hinari/en/registration.php or email . For access to numerous training modules, go to http://www.who.int/hinari/training/. The site includes links to other sources of free access to ejournals and regional ejournal indexes. http://www.who.int/hinari/en/ The 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. http://group.bmj.com/group/customerservice/hinari/ The Latin American and Caribbean Center for Information (or BIREME as it is widely known from its previous name 'Biblioteca Regional de Medicina') is the regional centre for technical co-operation in health sciences information. It coordinates a network of libraries, documentation and information centres on health-related technical and scientific information. It is developing a virtual library that includes full-text electronic journals from the region (SCIELO) and is available in English, Spanish and Portuguese http://regional.bvsalud.org/bvs/bireme/I/homepage.htm The BMJ website provides access to the full text of the BMJ, plus 'Collected Resources', a comprehensive collection of BMJ articles by specialty and topic - see http://www.bmj.com/collections/. The BMJ Publishing Group has led the way in improving access to information for health professionals in developing countries. The Group publishes a wide range of specialist journals, which are available free to users in low-income countries. http://www.bmj.com/ This site is a listing of links to open access, fulltext, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. Within the ''health sciences' category, there are links to over 300 titles, all available in full text, free of charge. This section is subdivided into specific clinical subjects and also contains an alphabetical listing. The site is maintained by the Lund University Libraries, Sweden. http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=subject&cpid=20 The website contains a list of links to Internet sites that discuss key issues of the ejournal revolution. Topics covered include: Open Access, bridging the digital divide and managing e-journals in libraries. The site also contains links to a range of gateways and initiatives that offer free access to electronic journals. It is maintained by the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, U.S. http://nnlm.gov/rsdd/ejournals/ EPT aims to support the electronic publication of scientific journals published in developing countries and thus contribute to narrowing the knowledge gap between scientists in the developed and developing regions of the world. http://www.epublishingtrust.org PERI is an INASP sponsored programme of support for information production, access and dissemination for research partners in developing and transitional countries utilising new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). It provides a range of capacity building services, including access for developing countries to a wide range of major scientific, technical, medical, social science and humanities materials. The site describes the programme, and details of materials available to eligible countries and is available in English, French, Spanish and Russian. Institutions are required to register for access. http://www.inasp.info/file/5f65fc9017860338882881402dc594e4/perii.html This is a French-language site, run by a France-based publisher NG Com Santé Tropicale. The site is dedicated to health issues in francophone Africa and Maghreb. It provides access to pdf files of 1800 African medical articles from three of its journals: Médecine d'Afrique Noire, Médecine du Maghreb, and Odontologie-Stomatologie Tropicale. The site includes an email discussion forum and links to other francophone African health web sites. http://www.santetropicale.com/ The 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. The site is maintained by Yale University Library, U.S. http://www.library.yale.edu/~llicense/develop.shtml This is a comprehensive list of medical journals on the Internet. There is a brief description and link to each journal. The site is maintained by Stanford University, U.S. http://med.stanford.edu/medworld/research_journals.html Developed by BioMed Central, this site emphasizes the benefits to the developing world of increased Internet technologies and open access to research. The site contains subject based gateways (ie. Infectious diseases, global health, cancer) to open access articles published in BioMed Central journals plus a keyword search engine, stories from developing country authors and links to related sites. http://www.biomedcentral.com/developingcountries/ This resource is an electronic gateway to scholarly journal literature, including health related titles, in the open access domain. The project provides access to journal articles and can be accessed by title, publishers, subject or keyword search. It indexes articles from 5387 open access journals, with links to full text at publishers' sites. Launched in 2006, Open J-Gate is maintained by Informatics (India) Ltd.  http://www.openj-gate.org/Search/QuickSearch.aspx pm2mail (PUBMED-TO-EMAIL) is a free software that allows email access to PUBMED and to full-text articles of scientific and medical journals indexed by Medline. This is a useful tool for all professionals with slow access to the Internet. It can also be used to access articles via HINARI. Users that have questions about the program and use for access to HINARI or want to download it should contact Kurt Brauchli, Department of Pathology, University of Basel, Switzerland, the developer of the program. http://www.nongnu.org/pm2mail/index.html This project provides access to popular, full-text medical journals, indexes and other health information resources located within the University of Toronto Library. These resources are available, on request, to medical researchers and physicians in developing countries, provided that the users agree to certain criteria (eg non-profit use only). The project hopes to widen the network to permit access for libraries and other organizations in developing countries. http://www.ptolemy.ca/ PLOS is a non-profit organization of scientists and physicians. Its aim is to make the world's scientific publications and medical literature a public resource, freely available to all. This endeavor is planning to be a repository of 'open access' ejournals and began publication with the October 2003 PLOS Biology. The program is based in San Francisco, U.S. http://www.plos.org/ This digital archive provides free and unrestricted access to full-text journal articles. The site includes an author and journal title search engine. It is managed by the Center for Biotechnology Information and the National Library of Medicine, U.S. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/ This site contains full-text electronic journals from the Latin American and Caribbean region. Some of the journals are in English, Spanish and/or Portuguese. Access is by country, title, subject and author. The site is maintained by BIREME. http://www.scielo.org/php/index.php Help us to improve Essential Health Links. Please send your comments and suggestions to: eh-links@healthnet.org