New publications: announcements in AIDS Treatment News.

We are trying a new section of short announcements of recent published articles and other information that our readers may want to know about.

For this first test we chose to focus on the medical journals listed at HIV InSite, at http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu/InSite?page=li-04-35. But other publications may be more useful to our readers than most journal articles. And news feeds on current research are already available. We are exploring how to be useful, and invite your input to [e-mail].

With medical journals, getting the original articles can be a problem, especially for those who are not part of a large university, hospital, corporation, or other institution that can negotiate top-of-the-line access that includes leading journals. As we learn more about legal ways for readers to get articles in some cases, we will share them. Fortunately the secondary materials that report on a range of research, and on thinking in the medical world, are usually free for everyone online; for most people these are more useful than original research reports. And the research papers almost always have a free abstract available (since otherwise the work could not be indexed effectively in large public databases, and would lose much of its audience and influence).

Recently there has been much concern about industry influence and other editorial problems of medical journals. We note three articles that address these issues at the end of this section.