Arthritis Research: the move to publish research articles in full online only

WhenArthritis Researchwas launched in 1999 the publishers and ourselves took the innovative decision to make all primary research articles available to everyone for free through the journal's own websitehttp://arthritis-research.comas well as through PubMed Centralhttp://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/, the National Institute of Health's repository for biomedical research articles, and through the BioMed Central (BMC) websitehttp://biomedcentral.com. We now feel that it is time to lead the way forward again by only publishing research articles in full online beginning with volume 4 number 4 ofArthritis Research.