ABSTRACT
It was December 1993. I was strolling around the London Online Meeting and Exhibition without a care in the world, until I came to the ADONIS stall. ADONIS was (and still is) producing periodic CD-ROMs containing the full text, as page images, of (at that time) about 300 of the leading biomedical journals published in industrialized countries. As Director of Health and Biomedical Information at the World Health Organization’s Regional Office in Alexandria, Egypt, I was an early subscriber to ADONIS.
