Select content from The Lancet, an international medical journal published by Amsterdam-based Elsevier, now can be downloaded onto PDAs and smart phones. The mobile edition of The Lancet offers full text of editorials, commentaries and news articles, as well as article abstracts and the table of contents page from each issue of the journal.
It also features free PDA software from San Francisco-based Roundpoint Inc. designed to enable management of the information. The management software is available for PDAs running the Palm OS or Windows Mobile operating systems.
The mobile edition of the journal is being offered on a subscription basis for $50 a year. New issues of The Lancet automatically are loaded onto subscribers' PDAs each time they synch.
The Lancet is offering a free 30-day trial subscription to the mobile edition.