At 10:07 AM 1/24/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Fytton Rowland wrote:
>> It says below that the services of BioMed Central will be free of charge.
>> How will it cover its costs?
>>
>It covers its costs many times over if it saves significant money on
>library budgets partly covered by NIH grants. This was a bit more
>explicit in Harold Varmus' initial proposal - it's about saving system
>costs. BioMed Central won't cost all that much to set up or operate
>anyway.
I think there is a misunderstanding here. I understand PubMed Central --
which is what I think Arthur Smith is talking about, and is run by NIH. I
was asking about BioMed Central (and I think the confusion between the two
names is perfectly deliberate!), which is run by a commercial organisation,
Current Science -- which being commercial needs to derive some income from
somewhere.
Fytton Rowland
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