Uncommon Ground

Monthly Archive: January 2019

Announcing a new platform for BioOne

Some of you know that I serve as Chair of the Board of Directors for BioOne, a non-profit publisher founded in 1999 with the goal of ensuring that non-profit publishers in the life sciences receive the revenue they need to support their journals while keeping the subscription cost to libraries affordable. We now publish more than 200 journals from 150 scientific societies and independent presses on BioOne Complete.

Earlier today we announced that BioOne Complete launched on a new website made possible through collaboration with SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics. Here’s a copy of the press release:

BioOne Complete launches on new platform powered by nonprofit partnership

Released: January 2, 2019

Washington, DC — BioOne (about.BioOne.org), the nonprofit publisher of more than 200 journals from 150 scientific societies and independent presses, has launched a new website for its content aggregation, BioOne Complete. Powered by a nonprofit collaboration with SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, the new site leverages SPIE’s proprietary platform for the benefit of BioOne’s more than 4,000 accessing libraries and millions of researchers around the world.

The new site (remaining at bioone.org) was designed with the needs of today’s researchers in mind. The modern and intuitive interface allows for enhanced searching and browsing, and simplified off-campus access. My Library features allow researchers to easily organize and access relevant articles and alerts, drawing from BioOne Complete’s database of more than 1.5 million pages of critical content.

“We are delighted to launch the new BioOne Complete website and share the redesigned interface and expanded functionality with our community, ” said Susan Skomal, BioOne President/CEO. “Our collaboration with SPIE has yielded not just a strong not-for-profit partnership, but a leading-edge website that helps better promote the important research of BioOne’s publishing participants.”

For more information about this transition and features available on the new website, please visit the BioOne Help Desk, Resources for Librarians and Administrators, or Resources for Publishers.

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About BioOne

BioOne is a nonprofit publisher committed to making scientific research more accessible. We curate content and support discourse while exploring new models in scientific publishing. BioOne’s core product is BioOne Complete, an online aggregation of subscribed and open-access titles in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences. BioOne Complete provides libraries with cost-effective access to high-quality research and independent society publishers with a dynamic, community-based platform and global distribution. about.bioone.org.