Bioline International Spreads Its Wings.

The article focuses on Bioline International, a pioneer in open access (OA) initiatives. It states that the company was launched as a service to distribute scientific papers online, and became an aggregator that provides free platform for 70 periodicals from various nations. It mentions that Bioline also faces problems such as the misunderstanding that it is cost free, and the focus on high-impact factor metrics which increases library spending and decreases diversity in knowledge dissemination.