Restrictions impeding web-based courses: a survey of publishers variation in authorising access to high quality on-line literature

摘要

BackgroundWeb-based delivery of educational programmes is becoming increasingly popular and is expected to expand, especially in medicine. The successful implementation of these programmes is reliant on their ability to provide access to web based materials, including high quality published work. Publishers' responses to requests to access health literature in the context of developing an electronic Master's degree course are described.