2006 BioOne Progress Report Now Available

[Lauren Kane <lauren@arl.org>]

2006 BioOne Progress Report Now Available
Washington, DC (February 8, 2007)

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 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.

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About BioOne

Established in 2000, BioOne is the product of innovative 
collaboration between scientific societies, libraries, academe, 
and the private sector, who seek a sustainable, mission-driven 
alternative to commercial publishing. BioOne brings to the Web a 
uniquely valuable aggregation of the full-texts of high-impact 
bioscience research journals. Most of BioOne's titles are 
published by small societies and not-for-profit publishers. 
BioOne provides integrated, cost-effective access to a thoroughly 
linked information resource of interrelated journals focused on 
the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences.

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