Closing the digital divide
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Closing the digital divide.
As recently as September 2000 a scientist from the World Health Organization wrote that global inequity in access to the internet was greater than any other inequity. Less than three years later more than 100 health institutions in the developing world have free electronic access to over 2000 journals—access that is equal, and sometimes better, than in institutions in New York, London, and Pari...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.326.7383.238