Readers of Splinters & Fragments, especially those on a budget, will be interested in the web site Free Medical Journals.com [http://www.freemedicaljournals.com/]. This site provides links and descriptions to free, full text online journals, and indicates whether they are available immediately, a few weeks or a year after publication. Journals include titles published in English, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish, and other languages. Many of the journals contain articles of interest to injury prevention practitioners. For example, a link to the African Newsletter on Occupational Health and Safety [http://www.occuphealth.fi/e/info/anl/index.htm], led to articles on involvement of children in the application and sale of pesticides in Tanzania, and snakebites in Niger.

For readers with an interest in law, the WHO International Digest of Health Legislation [http://www-nt.who.int/idhl/en/ConsultIDHL.cfm] offers a search by country or keyword to find information on recently passed laws and regulations that affect a number of injury related topics, including accident prevention and poisons.

An important …