Joe stated they are " Funded by the Aurora Health Care Foundation".
According to their 2015 Annual Report, the Foundation distributed $15
million in funding for that reporting year. The annual subscription for
bepress- which is a hosted service- is just a few thousand $$.

On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 12:59 PM, Truex, Eleanor <
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> Great! How are they funded, then? Just curious. Someone has to pay for the
> server etc...
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Medical Libraries Discussion List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Webb, Lucy
> Sent: Friday, March 10, 2017 11:26 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: FW: SOURCE
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> I wanted to share the response with the list.
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> Lucy Webb, MSLIS
> Lead Librarian | Aurora Health Care, WI | Aurora Libraries Phone
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Baumgardner, Dennis J.
> Sent: Friday, March 10, 2017 11:16 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Cc: Grundle, Joseph; Webb, Lucy
> Subject: FW: SOURCE
>
> Dear Mr. Wilkinson,
> On behalf of Joe Grundle, our managing editor, and the JPCRR staff, I am
> happy to respond that we are certainly not a predatory journal. Funded by
> the Aurora Health Care Foundation and indexed by the Directory of Open
> Access Journals, JPCRR content is freely available online and we do not
> charge author fees of any kind for submission or publication. In addition,
> we have no industry or other paid advertisements or want-ads. We use
> double-blind peer review, with significant author revisions typically
> required for publication. Our mission is to communicate original research
> findings to clinicians, researchers and patients with the goal of improving
> outcomes for individual patients and patient populations. We (our journal
> and our parent organization) are a nonprofit operation.
> In fact, If you check out my lead-in editorial of Volume 3, Issue 1,
> Winter 2016 (Baumgardner DJ. Asking questions, seeking improvements. J
> Patient Cent Res Rev 2016;3:6-8. http://digitalrepository.
> aurorahealthcare.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1253&context=jpcrr), the
> last two paragraphs briefly address this issue.
> I believe that one of your faculty has actually served as a peer reviewer
> for us.
> Thank you for your inquiry - please help spread the word! If interested,
> we would be happy to add you to our email list for updates on forthcoming
> issues.
> My Best Regards,
>
> Dennis
>
> Dennis J. Baumgardner, MD
> Clinical Adjunct Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health
> University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health; Director of
> Research, Aurora UW Medical Group; Associate Director, Center for Urban
> Population Health; Editor, Journal of Patient-Centered Research and Reviews
> 1020 North 12th Street, Suite 4180
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Medical Libraries Discussion List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Wilkinson, E
> Sent: Friday, March 10, 2017 10:22 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: SOURCE
>
> Good Friday morning - One of our faculty members is trying to find out if
> "Journal of Patient Centered Research and Review," published by Aurora
> Health Care Digital Repository, falls in to the category of predatory
> journals. Does anyone know one way or the other?
>
> Erik Wilkinson, MLS
> Unit Associate Director | Faculty Associate TTUHSC - Library of The Health
> Sciences at the Permian Basin
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> A good library has something to offend everyone.
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