BioOne is the product of innovative collaboration between scientific societies, libraries, academe and the private sector. 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 non-commercial publishers, and, until now, have been available only in printed form. BioOne provides integrated, cost-effective access to a thoroughly linked information resource of interrelated journals focused on the biological, ecological and environmental sciences.
BioOne features
- Thoroughly linked and easily-accessible core research in the biosciences;
- A cost-effective alternative to high-priced commercially-published journals;
- A new model of library-society collaboration in pursuit of shared interests in scholarly communications;
- A mechanism that enables high-value non-profit journals from scientific societies to remain independent and viable; and
- A unique opportunity for libraries to enhance their support of research directly and at a lower cost.
Who will benefit from BioOne?
- Academic libraries
- Public libraries
- Special libraries
- School libraries
BioOne Advantages
BioOne's Internet delivery system is based on an archival SGML database, which offers a seamless information environment that allows cross-journal searches and inter-journal linking from references. Each article indicates the journal, so societies can continue to maintain their identity and users can evaluate articles based on their origin.
BioOne is committed to the best practices in online-journals publishing and Web-based access. The service utilizes both established and new technology in order to provide features and functions most in demand by today's scholars, while using technology as a way to keep society journals viable and successful in this electronic age.
The journals in BioOne are fully encoded in a standards-based SGML format (based on ISO12083) for archival and searching purposes. HTML and PDF formats are provided for common browser viewing and printing. Articles included in the database are identified using Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) and are reference-linked with other BioOne journals to create an internally coherent research resource. The article DOIs are available to external abstracting and indexing services to provide easy linking to the online full-text of articles discovered as a result of searches in traditional indexing databases, a critical feature for researchers in need of quick, detailed information.
BioOne Collection
BioOne includes a broad selection of the full-texts, peer-reviewed journals and bulletins published by AIBS member societies and other closely related organizations. Articles are available in both HTML and PDF formats.
BioOne represents a core resource for any college or university library supporting undergraduate or advanced studies in the biosciences, and for organizations engaged in research and development. BioOne is distinguished from other aggregations by its highly-focused content from related sources. Additional publishers and journals will be added over time, and the database aggregation will ultimately encompass over 200 bioscience titles.
Editorial standards
Each publisher is responsible for the editorial content of its journals.
Titles are included in BioOne if they are known to maintain high standards for editorial integrity and credibility in the dissemination of peer-reviewed bioscience research, and are well regarded by the scientific and library communities. For each accepted journal, BioOne presents the full texts of all peer-reviewed papers (and all corresponding tables, graphics and illustrations), as well as other primary information of value to researchers.
Plans for back-issue digitization of BioOne journals
BioOne is extremely pleased to announce that it will be partnering with JSTOR on their new Ecological and Environmental Sciences Collection to provide the non-profit publishers participating in BioOne with a top-quality and sustainable archive of their back-issue content. This collaboration helps to advance BioOne's mission by addressing the publishing and library communities' shared interest in long-term digital preservation, while providing a new, high-quality service in the biological sciences. As an organization committed to collaboration among the various stakeholders in the scholarly community, we are particularly happy to be partnering with an organization that shares common goals of serving the library community and commitments to the long-term preservation and availability of scholarly materials. The complete digitization project will take a number of years to complete, but JSTOR will begin offering the package in mid-2005.
More information can be found on JSTOR.
About BioOne's creation
BioOne was created in mid-1999 by five collaborating organizations: The American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS), SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition), The University of Kansas, Greater Western Library Alliance (formerly Big 12 Plus Libraries Consortium), and Allen Press, Inc. These five collaborating organizations established a District of Columbia non-profit corporation called BioOne, with offices at the Association of Research Libraries. BioOne contracts with Allen Press for database and website development, and Amigos Library Services and Cambridge Scientific Abstracts for sales and marketing and subscription management. Each of the collaborating organizations has made, and will continue to make, substantial financial and/or in-kind contributions to the project. For contact information for each of the founding organizations please see BioOne Partners.
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