This finding reflects the preference for peer-reviewed journals as a general information source and may reflect the greater availability of journals to clinicians in hospitals.
On the other hand, they considered research laboratories, skills laboratories, teleconference technology, video conference technology availability of journals, residences and connections to telemedicine/radiology not adequate in terms of quantity and quality.
The issue is complicated by the increasing availability of journals via the internet and also by the sheer number of journals available, for example there were 139 journals in the 2001 'Surgery' category of the Science Citation Index (SCI, from Thomson Scientific, 2004) and many other journals also include papers on surgery.
Despite the availability of international journals, local journals still have a vital role to play in disseminating local knowledge, translating it into policy and practice, and contributing to national development.
However, the high availability rate of journal publications in our sample did not correspond to a high reporting rate of study data, which is consistent with previous findings.
The Internet has recently made possible the free global availability of scientific journal articles.
The limitations of the study include its cross-sectional design and the availability of the journal for citation and publication standards analysis.
We were surprised to learn that the availability of renal journal articles did not differ between subscription-free databases and subscription-based databases.
Thanks to the online availability of scientific journals, I brought myself up to date on the recent developments in the field, and integrated them with my early work.
The results show that OA already has a significant positive impact on the availability of the scientific journal literature and that there are big differences between scientific disciplines in the uptake.
