I discovered that Yale's Medical Library and Science Libraries will no longer subsidize article charges for Yale faculty in BioMedCentral publications. Yale's Medical Library and Science Libraries joined BioMedCentral in 2003 and decided to subsidize article charges (100%) for Yale authors in BMC publications. However the cost of subsidizing the authors has become too expensive for the libraries. They state that in 2005 it cost $4658 to subsidize authors. In 2006 the cost jumped to $29, 635 and in 2007 to $34,965.

Given the costs, I can see why they decided to no longer subsidize authors. I am curious to see how this effects the future number of Yale authors in BMC publications. Will they pay for the cost themselves?