Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases is an open access, peer-reviewed journal published by BioMed Central. As the journal is open access, all articles are freely accessible and the authors retain copyright of their work.

All articles are available online, and in addition the website offers many other services:

• Quick and advanced search facilities. Searches can be stored, and new results emailed to you as frequently as you choose.
• Top 10 most accessed articles to keep you up to date with what everyone else is reading.
• RSS feed, to deliver our latest articles directly to your news headline reader.
• Email articles directly to your friends and colleagues.
• Post a comment on an article, to add your opinion.
• Statistics on how well accessed any articles you have published in Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases.