Three new initiatives involving bmj.com

doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7337.559

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Taming the information beast

Tony Delamothe, web editor bmj.com

The BMJ's website is participating in three new initiatives that should make visitors' lives easier and more interesting. What each initiative shares is an attempt to make large amounts of information more manageable.

By clicking and dragging on HighWire's Topic Map, topics can be exposed in more or less detail. In this example, clinical medicine has been “exploded” showing some of its subcategories. These subcategories can be further exploded by dragging them into the centre of the field. Double clicking on a topic provides a list of documents

HighWire Library of Science and Medicine

(http://highwire.stanford.edu/)

As well as hosting bmj.com, Stanford University's HighWire Press hosts the electronic versions of over 300 scientific journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine and Science. The full text of nearly half the world's 200 most cited science journals are now available from HighWire.

Only a dozen of these journals share bmj.com's policy of offering free access from the moment of publication, but most open up their archives within a year of publication. This means that HighWire now offers free access to the full text of over 400 000 articles, making it the largest …