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For example, subscribing to the Science costs $295.00/year or
for an individual to subscribe to the Lancet, New England Journal
of Medicine, and the BMJ it costs over $400, while in many developing
countries, the per capita income is $300.00. So it is natural that a medical
library in the United States subscribes to about 3000 journals, whereas the
Nairobi Medical School Library, receives only 20 journals. Even if one would
be able to subscribe, Science arrives in India, China and Latin America
three or four weeks after publication. This is frequently long after the
call for abstracts, grants, papers, and too late to respond to articles with
letters to the editors, which hampers sending the information too. |
