The BMJ Publishing Group has for more than a year provided free access to the electronic version of its 23 specialist journals including QSHC to anybody in the 50 poorest countries in the world.^1,2Now free access is being extended to over 100 of the world's poorest countries which between them include most of the world's population. Free access is also available to Clinical Evidence, an evidence based compendium of answers to commonly asked clinical questions.³

The BMJ Publishing Group is not alone in providing free access to those …