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The shift to Net-based journal access has left subscribers with a confusing array of licensing schemes, rate levels, back-issue access policies, and user agreements. How much will you pay and how much content will you get? If publications like the British Medical Journal are an example of what's to come, get ready to cough up the cash. In May 1995, the BMJ became the first significant medical research periodical to "launch itself into cyberspace." At the time, the editors note, there were fewer than 20,000 Web sites on the Internet altogether!