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Africa's doctors' access assessed

05-16-2007 · EurekAlert!

Problems with passwords, electricity power outages and meddling librarians often come between African postgraduate doctors and free online journal articles. But according to independent research published in the online open access journal BMC Health Services Research, these doctors in training are making regular use of online medical literature, even if some have to use their local Internet café to gain access.

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