BioOne is a nonprofit publisher of scientific research.
BioOne was established in 1999 in Washington, DC, as a
501(c)(3)
A 501(c)(3) organization is a United States corporation, trust, unincorporated association or other type of organization exempt from federal income tax under section 501(c)(3) of Title 26 of the United States Code. It is one of the 29 types of 50 ...
not-for-profit organization by five scholarly collaborators: the
American Institute of Biological Sciences, the
Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC),
The
University of Kansas,
Greater Western Library Alliance
The Greater Western Library Alliance (GWLA) is a library consortium of 39 research libraries located across the United States.
Current members
* Arizona State University
* Baylor University
* Brigham Young University
* The Claremont Colleges ...
, and
Allen Press.
The main impetus for BioOne's creation was the common desire amongst key scholarly stakeholders for an alternative to commercial
scholarly publishing
Academic publishing is the subfield of publishing which distributes academic research and scholarship. Most academic work is published in academic journal articles, books or theses. The part of academic written output that is not formally publ ...
.
Half of the subscription fee revenue from ''BioOne Complete'' is divided between participating publishers.
See also
*
List of academic databases and search engines
This article contains a representative list of notable databases and search engines useful in an academic setting for finding and accessing articles in academic journals, institutional repositories, archives, or other collections of scientific and ...
References
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Bibliographic databases and indexes
Academic publishing companies
Bibliographic database providers
Organizations established in 2000
Full-text scholarly online databases
Ecological databases
English-language journals