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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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Autores principales: Reiser, Leonore, Berardini, Tanya Z., Li, Donghui, Muller, Robert, Strait, Emily M., Li, Qian, Mezheritsky, Yarik, Vetushko, Andrey, Huala, Eva
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2016
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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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