Washington, DC -- The non-profit corporation created to develop BioOne (TM) ( www.BioOne.org ), an electronic aggregation of information resources in the biological, ecological and environmental sciences, has installed its first Board of Directors. Alan Covich, Professor, Department of Fishery and Wildlife Biology at Colorado State University and President of the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS), was elected Chair of the Board.
The BioOne Board is responsible for guiding BioOne's policies and progress. BioOne's Board of Directors is comprised of ten individuals from the five organizations that are collaborating to create BioOne: AIBS, SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), University of Kansas, the Big 12 Plus Libraries Consortium, and Allen Press. The Board is in the process of adding representation for content providers.
Other board officers include Marilu Goodyear, Vice Chancellor for Information Services at University of Kansas, Secretary of the Board; and Adrian W. Alexander, Executive Director of the Big 12 Plus Libraries Consortium, Treasurer.
"As a scientist to whom access to research is important and a society member for whom the continued viability of societies is critical, I am pleased to help BioOne fill a void in scientific communications," said Alan Covich, BioOne's new Chair. "BioOne answers the need for electronically accessible research from societies already known for delivering high-quality material. The BioOne aggregation offers the critical mass needed to transform societies into competitive players in the publishing marketplace while maintaining a focus on research and researchers."
A broad selection of the journals published by many of the AIBS' 70 member societies will form BioOne's core offerings. BioOne collaborators are currently working with societies to create model licenses tailored to these publishers' needs.
All research included in BioOne will be extensively hyperlinked, offering cross-journal searches and inter-journal linking from references. BioOne's beta release is scheduled for early 2001, and it will be fully operational soon thereafter.
BioOne's development costs have been funded by SPARC and Big 12 Plus member libraries, along with other libraries that are committed to playing a leading role in transforming scientific communications.
BioOne is a Washington, D.C. non-profit Corporation. The BioOne Board of Directors includes Adrian W. Alexander, Executive Director, Big 12 Plus Libraries Consortium; Shirley K. Baker, Vice Chancellor for Information Technology and Dean of University Libraries, Washington University Libraries, and Vice President, Association of Research Libraries; E. Dale Cluff, Dean of Libraries, Texas Tech University, and Chair, Board of Directors, Big 12 Plus Libraries Consortium; Alan P. Covich, Professor, Department of Fishery and Wildlife Biology, Colorado State University, and President, American Institute of Biological Sciences; Guy Dresser, Vice President of Operations, Allen Press, Inc.; Marilu Goodyear, Vice Chancellor for Information Services, University of Kansas; Richard K. Johnson, Enterprise Director, SPARC; Robert F. Kidd, Director of Development, Allen Press, Inc.; Richard T. O'Grady, Executive Director, American Institute of Biological Sciences; and David E. Shulenburger, Provost, University of Kansas.
BioOne (TM) is an electronic aggregation of information resources in the biological, ecological and environmental sciences. It is being developed by the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS), SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), the University of Kansas, the Big 12 Plus Libraries Consortium, and Allen Press. When launched in 2001, BioOne will offer a broad selection of the journals of many AIBS member societies. For more information: www.BioOne.org .