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want to be “Main Sponsors”.<br />
• Article Submission fees of $90 US are payable by all authors submitting articles for<br />
publication<br />
Case study: Bioline International<br />
www.bioline.org.br<br />
Bioline International (BI) is a not-for-profit scholarly publishing cooperative that currently<br />
publishers over 70 open access journals. BI's goal of reducing the South to North knowledge gap<br />
is crucial to a global understanding of health (tropical medicine, infectious diseases,<br />
epidemiology, emerging new diseases), biodiversity, the environment, conservation and<br />
international development. By providing a platform for the distribution of peer-reviewed journals<br />
from developing countries, BI helps to reduce the global knowledge divide by making bioscience<br />
information generated in these countries available to the international research community worldwide.<br />
Bioline is managed by scientists and librarians. It is a collaborative endeavor between Bioline<br />
Toronto (management office) and the Reference Center on Environmental Information in Brazil<br />
(host computer and software development). The project is supported by the University of Toronto<br />
Scarborough Department of Social Sciences (infrastructure) and sponsored by libraries and<br />
members.<br />
Between 2000 and 2008, Bioline International was supported by in-kind contributions from the<br />
University of Toronto and the Reference Center on Environmental Information (CRIA) in Brazil,<br />
library acquisitions payments from University of Toronto Libraries, and the occasional grant from<br />
the Open Society Institute and others.<br />
In 2008, Bioline implemented a new business plan involving membership and sponsorship<br />
contributions. The aim was to have revenues from these contributions support all aspects of<br />
Bioline International operations. Annual membership fees are $500 US per year for Library or<br />
organizational membership and $5000 US per year for Consortial Membership. Individual<br />
memberships and sponsorships are also available.<br />
Bioline has also been seeking short term funding in the form of foundation sponsorships. These<br />
are negotiated individually, and are instrumental in helping Bioline to make the transition to a<br />
membership-supported model over a three-year period.<br />
Case study: University of Toronto Journal of Undergraduate Life Sciences.<br />
http://juls.library.utoronto.ca/<br />
There is an increasing number of student-run journals in Canada. These peer-reviewed journals<br />
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