2006 BioOne Progress Report Now Available
At an average cost to subscribing institutions of $0.75 per full-text download, BioOne remains one of the highest quality, lowest cost options for electronic access to current content. A complete report detailing BioOne’s evolution last year is now available in the 2006 BioOne Progress Report at http://www.bioone.org/pdf/BioOne06ProgressRpt.pdf.
This publicly available report illustrates BioOne’s increasing relevance and value to the scholarly community as an alternative, not-for-profit online publisher. In addition to describing past and present activities and achievements, the report highlights BioOne’s continued commitment to evolve to better meet the needs of its stake-holders.
BioOne is now home to 125 publications from 91 publishers across three collections: BioOne.1, BioOne.2, and Open Access. Paid subscribers (which includes the University of Iowa) at the end of 2006 included nearly 1,000 global institutions and organizations, plus many hundreds more accessing through no or low cost developing world programs. BioOne registered over 5.9 million hits in 2006 to abstracts and full-texts, with at least 258,000 unique visitors to the site each month.
