Is that it? How online articles have changed over the past five years

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Five years ago BMJ readers responded to the challenge of predicting what online articles would look like in the future in five general medical journals. Has the development of electronic publishing lived up to their predictions? Our 1997 Christmas issue carried several descriptions of what an online scientific article would look like by now.1 We asked readers for their predictions and promised a prize, based on comparisons with contemporary articles “appearing in online versions of the Annals of Internal Medicine , BMJ , JAMA , Lancet , and New England Journal of Medicine (should they still exist).” These five general medical journals still exist. While all now have full text online versions, you'd be hard pressed to see much change in their articles over the past five years. Nevertheless, on closer inspection, vague hints of change are detectable, although for their full blooded realisation you'll need to look elsewhere. ### Box 1: Reality check Five common themes emerged in the published views:

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