The Hindu Business Line : Biomed research now on the Web

THE World Health Organisation (WHO) has made one of the largest collections of biomedical literature available on the Internet, a move that puts critical research at the fingertips of thousands of doctors, policy-makers and other professionals in some 70 developing countries.

The initiative, carried out by WHO and the world's six biggest medical journal publishers, constitutes "perhaps the biggest step ever taken towards reducing the health information gap between rich and poor countries," said WHO Director-General Gro Harlem Brundtland.

Called `Access to Research', the effort enables accredited universities, medical schools, research centres and other public institution to gain access to the wealth of scientific information contained in more than 1,000 different biomedical journals produced by the six publishers. The journals are can now be accessed at www.healthinternetwork.net.

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