BioOne is a nonprofit publisher of scientific research. BioOne was established in 1999 in Washington, DC, as a

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not-for-profit organization by five scholarly collaborators: the American Institute of Biological Sciences, the

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(SPARC), The

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, Greater Western Library Alliance, 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. Half of the subscription fee revenue from ''BioOne Complete'' is divided between participating publishers.

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