The joy of being electronic

BMJ 1999;319:465-466 ( 21 August )

Editorials

The joy of being electronic

The BMJ's website is mushrooming

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Websites are like gardens. Turn your back on them for a few weeks and they're overrun with weeds in the form of out of datecoming events and hypertext links leading nowhere. But, like gardens,websites offer amazing opportunities to experiment. Plant somethingthat doesn't take or produce the effect you wanted and you cantake it out and try something else. And, like a garden, the internetis very forgiving $---$ no hard copy archive survives to mock your falsestarts and wrongturns.

The launch of the BMJ's full text website in April 1998 coincided with a frenzy of new planting, much of which is coming tofruition this (northern) summer. Most work has been devoted toour collected resources $---$ 210 virtual pages each devoted to a singletopic. These rely on the coding of each journal article with oneor more clinical and non-clinical topic codes (for example, . . . [Full text of this article]

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