200 years of historically significant biomedical journal articles are now freely available online thanks to an initiative developed through a partnership between the Wellcome Trust, JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee), the US National Library of Medicine (NLM) and medical journal publishers. Upon completion, the Medical Journals Backfiles Digitisation Project will deliver over three million pages of medical journals to PubMed Central, and will be searchable through PubMed and Google.