Pricing
Before you buy BSB access, please read this:
- All licenses are based on a named “designated user” basis. You are buying access just for the person whose name is on the email used to login to BSB. This access cannot be shared with others.
- No content can be shared by any means and all readers of BSB content are required to have their own individual login ID. This means you can’t print off a copy, email a PDF or upload it to your server or intranet for others to read.
- We expect people to purchase a multi-user license if you are in a leadership role or are working in a team or group where content or insights may be shared directly or indirectly. You’ll see the cost of a 3 person license in our pricing table, we’re happy to quote for 5 or more users. The more users, the greater the discount. As a condition of access we may require the purchase of a license for a minimum number of users.
- If you work in PR, IR, Communications, CI, Medical Education, Media or for a Service Provider such as a CRO you must contact us first prior to making any purchase in order to discuss how you will use our content and obtain our approval. This includes people who work in these areas in a pharma/biotech company. Please read the additional guidance later in this page and in our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.
- If you are unemployed, between jobs or on “gardening leave” and would like BSB access to help you keep up to date or read up on the field, then you must contact us first prior to making any purchase to discuss and obtain our approval. This applies even if you have had BSB access before and we know you. If in doubt about your situation please contact us.
- We expect people to use their work or business related email address when purchasing access. We do require all users to be upfront about who they are and who they work for, so please don’t purchase access using a gmail (or equivalent) address and hope we won’t seek verification.
- If you work in finance, please note we do not provide any compliance review nor can you pay with so called “soft dollars.” If you want to pay by those means or have compliance concerns, then there are other data sources out there that will better meet your needs and BSB is probably not right for you.
- Prior to purchase please take the time to read our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy and understand them. When you purchase you are agreeing to abide by our policies including a prohibition on the use of Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) that anonymize identity and location. Don’t just click on the box at time of purchase to say you’ve read them without doing so and feel free to send them to your legal counsel for review. We do take our Terms of Use seriously, so please do not put us in the unenviable position of having to write to you or contact your company general counsel about any violation. We expect BSB users to be ethical and to respect our business model.
Please contact us if you have any questions about our Terms of Use & Privacy Policy or if you would like a quote for a multi-user license or the cost to share a post or generate a reprint.
All multi-user licenses typically have an administrator, who may or may not be one of the named designated users, and he/she is responsible for advising who should have access. We will, subject to reasonable use, transfer the access for a designated user should someone leave the company or be reassigned. The company in essence owns the license and is in control of who has access. Please note, all users in a multi-user license must be employees of the company or an affiliate, you cannot give access to consultants or anyone external to the company.
If you are considering a large group multi-user license, but are not sure whether BSB will meet your needs, then we can offer you an online tour where we answer questions and take you behind the BSB paywall. At our discretion, we can offer a trial period for a large group to evaluate our content, subject to limitations on access to back content. This is usually heavily restricted in any trial.
“Titanium” license applies if you work in Business, Industry & Finance
If you work in industry or for any “for-profit” business then a minimum of a Titanium license is required.
If you are Unemployed/Between Jobs or work in Communications, CI, Medical Education, IR, PR, Media, Consulting or for a service provider such as a CRO then you need to contact us first to discuss how you will use our content, and our permission is required prior to any purchase. This applies even if you work in a pharma/biotech company. If you go ahead and purchase without permission, then any refund we may provide will be less any non-refundable credit card fees and a fee for any posts you have already accessed. These fees/costs are detailed in our Terms of Use.
See guidance at the bottom of this page and in our Terms of Use & Privacy Policy.
“Gold” license applies if you are in academia or work for a non-profit organization but this has to be your main job!
We do have academic researchers and medical oncologists from round the world as subscribers to BSB. Not everyone can get to every meeting (in the days when we could all travel or wanted to travel), and even with virtual access, you still have to find the time.
The field is moving at such a fast pace that textbooks are out of date by the time they are written, particularly in immuno-oncology or emerging fields like protein degradation.
If you are in academia or work for a non-profit organization then the discounted gold license applies. Think about it like going to a scientific or medical conference. If you are in “industry” you typically expect to pay more for a meeting registration than if you are a researcher or someone in academia or a non-profit.
Please note we reserve the right to verify the eligibility of anyone who wishes to subscribe at this level, and the academic/medical/non-profit has to be your main employment. If you are an MD employed in industry or finance who does the occasional clinic, you do not qualify for the gold rate.
As per our Terms of Use & Privacy Policy, we reserve the right to decline any purchase at our sole discretion, or to seek additional payment if a gold level license instead of a titanium is purchased and proof of academic status or full time work for a non-profit organization is not provided. If you are an academic working extensively with industry, advising companies, collaborating with a company in your research or have set up your own company, then the gold rate may not be applicable, and we may require you to purchase a titanium license as a condition of access or for any renewal. Please contact us if you have any questions or wish to discuss your eligibility for the discounted gold rate.
Irrespective of the license level purchased, no post can be shared within a company/ organisation or with others without payment of an additional fee either in the form of a share license or a permissions fee for a reprint.
Important note – for those who are Unemployed/Between Jobs or working in Media, Med Ed, IR, Comms, PR, CI, Consulting and Service Providers – permission is required!
If you are unemployed/between jobs or work in communications (including within a biotech/pharma company), medical education, IR, PR, CI, media, consulting or for a service provider such as a CRO, then you need to contact us first to discuss how you will use our content, and our permission is required for any purchase.
Unemployed, between jobs, or on “gardening leave” (etc): We do occasionally have folk who want to access BSB to help them keep up to date in a rapidly moving field as they look for a new position, or they may already have a new position lined up but want to come up to speed e.g. they may be new to oncology. If you fall into that category then you must contact us first (even if we know you or you have previously had BSB access) prior to making any purchase to discuss and obtain our approval. Each decision is reviewed on a case by case basis and access is at our sole discretion.
PR, IR & Comms (including corp comms/media relations in pharma/biotech): We have sadly been burnt by PR folk sharing our content widely, so if you work in communications, IR, PR or a related agency and would like access to our content, we now require the purchase of a multi-user license that will cover everyone in the company. If you’re in corp comms/media relations in pharma/biotech we typically require the purchase of a multi-user license as a condition of access. Please contact us to discuss.
If a PR company facilitates an interview, as a matter of routine, they will receive a courtesy copy of the related post we write.
CI, Consulting, Service Providers & Med Ed: If you work in CI, consulting, medical education or for a service provider such as a CRO, and would like to have access to our content e.g. to use it as a data source, resource for projects, a specific engagement or for your own education or that of a team member e.g. come up to speed on an area, we will need to discuss and understand how you will use our content, how many people within the team or company will have access to it, and what might be shared with client(s) or others. It is unlikely that we will grant access just for one person, and we would expect the purchase of a multi-user license, a clear definition on the scope of use, and would need to assess what the risk of sharing with non BSB subs might be.
Media: We are flattered that some of our media colleagues would like to purchase BSB access to help them with their coverage of oncology new products and the conferences/meetings we attend. However, in the competitive media landscape that we live in, we really have no interest in having our story ideas, insights or content repurposed by other outlets, even with attribution, so this is not something we typically allow.
Any decision is made on a case by case basis and we reserve the right to decline any purchase at our sole discretion or to require as a condition of access the purchase of a license that covers all in a group, team or a company.
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