There's additional good news. Of these 5 journals, only BMJ and CMAJ are, at present, freely and publicly available online. Data for October 2000 from the Web site of Free Medical Journals.com indicate that, of the free general medical journals, CMAJ is in second place when ranked according to impact factor. It will be very interesting to see whether the impact factors of highly ranked free medical journals increase over the next few years, in comparison with the impact factors of journals that are not free.