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I'm not sure where you're getting these figures from. > PubMed Central (PMC) costs US taxpayers about $4.45 million per year to run, according to documents rec

I'm not sure where you're getting these figures from. > PubMed Central (PMC) costs US taxpayers about $4.45 million per year to run, according to documents recently obtained by an ongoing Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2013/07/16/the-price-of-posting-pubmed-central-spends-most-of-its-budget-handling-author-manuscripts/ https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2013/07/16/the-price-of-... The National Library of Medicine's entire budget is $341 million, and they have brick and mortar buildings to maintain and many other responsibilities - there's no way that almost their entire budget would go to paying for PubMed.

ChrisLomont 6y ago
PMC is a tiny part of what makes PubMed, and is even considered distinct from PubMed [1]. Dig up the budget for PubMed, not a tiny slice. I've been down this road many times.... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PubMed_Central https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PubMed_Central
- mannerheim 6y ago
  Nowhere in that link, nor the article on PubMed describes PMC as a part of PubMed. Moreover, the relevant legal act, the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2008, requires NIH-funded research to be published in PMC, so it's PMC's budget that is relevant here.
  - ChrisLomont 6y ago
    >Nowhere in that link, nor the article on PubMed describes PMC as a part of PubMed Yes, this is why I'm confused why you'd dispute the PubMed annual budget by posting PMC budget. PubMed is much bigger and more widely used (NIH data shows it), and it gives free access to lots of papers, gene databanks, and other public sources.
    - mannerheim 6y ago
      You claimed that PMC is a part of PubMed, but there's nothing that says so. Anyway, NIH-funded research is required to be published on PMC, not PubMed, so the cost of PMC is the one to be examined for the question of a mandatory open access policy. So all of what PubMed does is entirely irrelevant to this question, since PMC is where these have to be published to.

ChrisLomont 6y ago

PMC is a tiny part of what makes PubMed, and is even considered distinct from PubMed [1]. Dig up the budget for PubMed, not a tiny slice. I've been down this road many times.... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PubMed_Central https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PubMed_Central

mannerheim 6y ago
Nowhere in that link, nor the article on PubMed describes PMC as a part of PubMed. Moreover, the relevant legal act, the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2008, requires NIH-funded research to be published in PMC, so it's PMC's budget that is relevant here.
- ChrisLomont 6y ago
  >Nowhere in that link, nor the article on PubMed describes PMC as a part of PubMed Yes, this is why I'm confused why you'd dispute the PubMed annual budget by posting PMC budget. PubMed is much bigger and more widely used (NIH data shows it), and it gives free access to lots of papers, gene databanks, and other public sources.
  - mannerheim 6y ago
    You claimed that PMC is a part of PubMed, but there's nothing that says so. Anyway, NIH-funded research is required to be published on PMC, not PubMed, so the cost of PMC is the one to be examined for the question of a mandatory open access policy. So all of what PubMed does is entirely irrelevant to this question, since PMC is where these have to be published to.