Paying for bmj.com

doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7409.241

BMJ 2003;327:241-242 (2 August), doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7409.241

Editorial

Paying for bmj.com

From 2005, some users will have to pay for some content

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Almost 10 years after it began, the BMJ 's experiment of allowing free access to everything on its website will come to an end.The BMJ Publishing Group board has decided that, from January2005, visitors to bmj.com should pay for access. The resultingrevenue should not only defray the website's current costsbut also allow us to fund further developments.

Exactly which content will be behind access controls, for howlong, and for whom has yet to be decided. We can, however,assure BMA members (including student members) and users fromthe World Bank's list of 120 low and lower middle income countries¹that access will remain free to them. We had hoped to extendthis dispensation to medical students everywhere, but the difficultyof verifying the credentials of an estimated 14 000 medicalstudent visitors each week makes this unlikely. Access to student bmj.com will remain free.

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