The birth of an open access multidisciplinary online journal

So how is biij different from other scientific online journals? biij’s objectives are: • to provide free online access to all our scientific materials in accordance with the Budapest Open Access Initiative. biij plans to remove unnecessary barriers that inhibit the sharing of scientific knowledge and information to accelerate research, enrich education and share the learning of the rich with the poor and vice-versa. biij lays the foundation to unite humanity in a common intellectual discussion and to fulfil the quest for knowledge in a costeffective manner. • to expand the scope of disseminating scientific information through the Internet by making available a large stock of teaching materials in the form of audio-video files from presentations made at scientific meetings. • through shared ownership by the scholarly community and individuals involved in the field to shape the future direction of the journal including ‘radiological’ and allied organizations in the region that do not have their own journals to share their research publications, guidelines, etc. with others.