Building surgical research capacity in Africa: the Ptolemy Project.

PLoS Med

Office of International Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Published: July 2006

The authors describe the Ptolemy Project, a recently developed model of electronic access to medical literature for surgeons in developing countries.

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