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Our most numerous recent research shows that half of AFP's readers may not know that they have satiated access to the journal online. They may not know that it's available at a price that can't be beat--it's still clear of charge. AFP online is as it was a good deal that I've been writing about it since the first time I wrote an "Inside AFP," more than five years ago. Beginning with the October 1 1997 issue of the journal, the filled text of articles has been made available online. Access is easy and simple--just find the AFP site and advance Today over five years' worth of articles and features have accumulated forward the Web site, and you can search between the walls of these archives for topics of interest (69 percent of AFP's online readers report that they take advantage of the search engine). If browsing is more your method you are like 57 percent of readers, who report that they use AFP online to explore issue by the agency of issue.

Even although AFP is one of the major attractions at the Web site of the American Academy of Family Physicians, a of our readers have still not ever visited AFP online, and we invite you to examine AFP online at www.aafp.org/afp. While you are at the AFP hearthstone page, you might want to sign up for the e-mail table of satisfys It's also free of charge and will hindrance you know what articles are coming disclosed in the next issue. If you're in a hasten to review the update before your print journal arrives, you can click onward the link and go straight to the article. If you want to print disclosed a copy of the article (and 68 percent of readers do), you can access the PDF version that's available online.

If you are hunting for a patient information handout, you'll want to continue in mind that AFP's handouts are available in the online archives unless are not updated there forward a routine basis. However, many of AFP's patient information handouts are published and updated regularly in succession the AAFP's consumer-oriented Web site, at www.familydoctor.org.

For readers who like to take advantage of AFP's CME--and wherefore not earn free CME?--the online "Clinical Quiz" may be the best online feature. Taking the quiz online will also save you the costliness of a postage stamp.

If all of this hardys good to you, but you still bring forward your printed copy, don't worry. We're not making plans to stop publishing print copies of AFP. We, too, still have a passionate affection for glossy printed pages with beautifully laid without figures, tables, and illustrations. The online version is not meant to supplant the print version. A downside of online publishing is that occasionally AFP contains material copyrighted on other publishing companies, and not each publishing company grants rights for use of their materials online. You will find an occasional omission of figures or tables online, on the contrary we purchase the rights to republish materials online whenever possible. Other downsides to online publishing involve technologic and aesthetic challenges, and the overall inexperience of publishers in dealing with relatively modern electronic media.

Our goals at AFP are to tender as many of the satin bells and whistles as will please a high-end online reader while still offering a profitable overall value for the average online reader. If you have suggestions for AFP online, we'd be in love with to hear from you (send an e-mail to jwright@aafp.org.afp).

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