Rights of access to each title will be controlled separately, but together the journals represent an impressive resource in nutritional science.If you have not seen the site yet, please have a look at http://nutrition.cabweb.org/.The BJN is making this move at just about the same time as most other journals, and for the same reasons (Nature has just announced its own availability on the Web, so we are in august company).What, readers might ask, are the reasons?From the reader's point of view there are many potential advantages.Perhaps most importantly, it will be possible to read the Journal from one's office without having to walk to the library.We are aware that in some large institutions the Journal is taken by one faculty (e.g.agriculture) and is not then easily available to those in, for instance, the faculty of medicine.Provided that the institutional subscription covers all potential readers, that problem should now be resolved.Downloading and printing of individual articles is also easy.But from the reader's point of view, some at least equally important advantages are also under development.It should soon be possible to create links so that, for instance, each reference in the bibliography will itself ultimately be a link to that particular paper or an abstract of it.Emailing
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Frayn et al. (1999) studied this question.