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Sustainable funding for biocuration: The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR) as a case study of a subscription-based funding model
Databases and data repositories provide essential functions for the research community by integrating, curating, archiving and otherwise packaging data to facilitate discovery and reuse. Despite their importance, funding for maintenance of these resources is increasingly hard to obtain. Fueled by a...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4795935/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26989150 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/database/baw018 |
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author | Reiser, Leonore Berardini, Tanya Z. Li, Donghui Muller, Robert Strait, Emily M. Li, Qian Mezheritsky, Yarik Vetushko, Andrey Huala, Eva |
author_facet | Reiser, Leonore Berardini, Tanya Z. Li, Donghui Muller, Robert Strait, Emily M. Li, Qian Mezheritsky, Yarik Vetushko, Andrey Huala, Eva |
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description | Databases and data repositories provide essential functions for the research community by integrating, curating, archiving and otherwise packaging data to facilitate discovery and reuse. Despite their importance, funding for maintenance of these resources is increasingly hard to obtain. Fueled by a desire to find long term, sustainable solutions to database funding, staff from the Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR), founded the nonprofit organization, Phoenix Bioinformatics, using TAIR as a test case for user-based funding. Subscription-based funding has been proposed as an alternative to grant funding but its application has been very limited within the nonprofit sector. Our testing of this model indicates that it is a viable option, at least for some databases, and that it is possible to strike a balance that maximizes access while still incentivizing subscriptions. One year after transitioning to subscription support, TAIR is self-sustaining and Phoenix is poised to expand and support additional resources that wish to incorporate user-based funding strategies. Database URL: www.arabidopsis.org |
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spelling | pubmed-47959352016-03-21 Sustainable funding for biocuration: The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR) as a case study of a subscription-based funding model Reiser, Leonore Berardini, Tanya Z. Li, Donghui Muller, Robert Strait, Emily M. Li, Qian Mezheritsky, Yarik Vetushko, Andrey Huala, Eva Database (Oxford) Original Article Databases and data repositories provide essential functions for the research community by integrating, curating, archiving and otherwise packaging data to facilitate discovery and reuse. Despite their importance, funding for maintenance of these resources is increasingly hard to obtain. Fueled by a desire to find long term, sustainable solutions to database funding, staff from the Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR), founded the nonprofit organization, Phoenix Bioinformatics, using TAIR as a test case for user-based funding. Subscription-based funding has been proposed as an alternative to grant funding but its application has been very limited within the nonprofit sector. Our testing of this model indicates that it is a viable option, at least for some databases, and that it is possible to strike a balance that maximizes access while still incentivizing subscriptions. One year after transitioning to subscription support, TAIR is self-sustaining and Phoenix is poised to expand and support additional resources that wish to incorporate user-based funding strategies. Database URL: www.arabidopsis.org Oxford University Press 2016-03-17 /pmc/articles/PMC4795935/ /pubmed/26989150 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/database/baw018 Text en © The Author(s) 2016. Published by Oxford University Press. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Reiser, Leonore Berardini, Tanya Z. Li, Donghui Muller, Robert Strait, Emily M. Li, Qian Mezheritsky, Yarik Vetushko, Andrey Huala, Eva Sustainable funding for biocuration: The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR) as a case study of a subscription-based funding model |
title | Sustainable funding for biocuration: The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR) as a case study of a subscription-based funding model |
title_full | Sustainable funding for biocuration: The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR) as a case study of a subscription-based funding model |
title_fullStr | Sustainable funding for biocuration: The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR) as a case study of a subscription-based funding model |
title_full_unstemmed | Sustainable funding for biocuration: The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR) as a case study of a subscription-based funding model |
title_short | Sustainable funding for biocuration: The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR) as a case study of a subscription-based funding model |
title_sort | sustainable funding for biocuration: the arabidopsis information resource (tair) as a case study of a subscription-based funding model |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4795935/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26989150 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/database/baw018 |
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