All issues of the BJGP from 1990–2005 are now freely available to all via the PubMed Central database (a free archive of life sciences journals) as a result of a landmark project by the Wellcome Trust.
The BGJP archive is available at www.pubmedcentral.gov
We are working on digitising the entire back catalogue to make all BJGP content (excluding the current 12 months, available to RCGP Members and BJGP subscribers only) free to anyone through standard search tools such as PubMed and Google.
The initiative was developed through a partnership between the Wellcome Trust, JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) and the US National Library of Medicine.
In addition to the faithful replication of every published page, the archive provides a number of innovative value-added functions, including links from references to full text, high-resolution images, full-text searching across the entire archive, and links from the original article to corrections and retractions and vice-versa.
Visit the BJGP archive (http://www.pubmedcentral.gov/tocrender.fcgi?journal=261&action=archive) on PubMed Central for more information and to view the contents.
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