Editorial
Getting our journals to developing countries
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For some years now it has been our policy to give free
subscriptions to our journals to applicants from countries in the
developing world. However, in practice, this has had its difficulties.
Many developing countries have either poor or non-existent postal
services and granting a print subscription can often be problematic and expensive
the marginal cost of sending the Annals
of the Rheumatic Diseases to Africa is around £25 each year.
An editorial in BMJ sets out the arguments very clearly.1 We know that the gap between the rich and poor countries is widening. While those of us in the developed world have information overload, the developing countries have bare library shelves. The internet gives us an opportunity to narrow the gap.
The marginal cost of giving access to the electronic edition of the
Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases is close to
zero. What is more, those in resource-poor countries
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