Medical journals: portal sites

Portal sites 

• HINARI - Health Internetwork Access to Research Initiative     Free or low cost access for developing countries: The HINARI programme has been set up by the WHO in collaboration with the six biggest editors worldwide. It aims to give free or low cost access to the big journals that are covering the fields of biological medicine and social sciences for public and not-for-profit institutions in the development countries. More than 7,000 journals are accessible to health institutions in 109 countries and give access to information in the field of health to their health staff, to researchers and law-makers, as a contribution to an improved health situation globally. 
• BDSP - Banque de données en Santé Publique (French): The BDSP is a French cooperation network to put online information sources on public health. It has been created by the General Health Direction and has since 1993 developed online information services for professionals from the sanitary and the social sectors. The website aims to give access to a very wide range of information sources thanks to basic navigation tools. The coordination of the network, under the direction of a national Steering Committee, is assured at the EHESP (Rennes - France), by the 'Atelier d'études et développement' from the BDSP.
  All online services of the BDSP are freely accessible.
• Catalogue et index des Sites Médicaux francophones (CiSMEF) (French):
  This project is the online 'le Catalogage et l'Indexation des Sites Médicaux Francophones'.
  This catalogue indexes the principal French-speaking websites and documents. In May 2008, it has more than 43,000 indexed resources with an average of 55 new resources per week. This list of websites includes a classification per theme, especially in medical fields, an alphabetical classification and access per type of resources. Since June 2000, the linked tool, Doc'CISMeF, enables to do searches in the resources' catalogue, and offers extended search possibilities.  
• PubMed : PubMed is a service of the US National Library of Medicine that includes over 16 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.
• BioMed Central: BMC Journals : The research articles in all journals published by BioMed Central are 'Open Access'. They are immediately and permanently available online without charge. A number of journals require an institutional or a personal subscription to view other content, such as reviews or paper reports. Free trial subscriptions to these journals are available.
• Free Medical Journals :  Free Medical Journal is an internet portal contributing to free access to medical journals. The site gives online access to a certain number of specialized full text journals.  
• Pubcrawler: PubCrawler is a free alerting service with a daily review of the updates based on the information of Medline PubMed and GenBank. PubCrawler makes it possible for scientists to stay informed about the recent contents of MedLine and of GenBank by listing the entries of the databases corresponding to their fields of interest.
• DOAJ: A database of free access publications (Lund University Libraries). 66 public health journals and 180 on general medicine.
• African Journals Online: Not exclusively on health but still overseeable. Only abstracts are placed online, but articles can be ordered, free of charge for developing countries!
• Scielo - Scientific Electronic Library Online (also available in Spanish and Portuguese): A shorter list of journals, but with a search-option for key words.
  SciELO - Scientific Electronic Library Online is an electronic cooperative model of scientific journals on internet. It is especially conceived to answer to the scientific communication needs of the development countries, notably in Latin America and the Caribbean countries.