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In Silico Biology, like all academic journals by definition, is fundamentally an information source (and in this case is)about the article topic. You are certainly right in that journals may not always be suitable external links if their articles are only accessible with payment unless perhaps if the abstracts were particularly descriptive and freely available. In Silico Biology however seems to offer most of it's content free. In fact in my brief review of the site, I don't know why someone would get a subscription because the full text of every article I looked at was freely available with just a click.

Perhaps the subscription is for a paper copy since the fee is similar to that of a magazine not a typical journal that charges several thousand US dollars or more. This would seem to make it much like an open access journal. A compilation of other such journals is available at Directory of Open Access Journals.

No doubt the owner of the business that was linked to probably genuinely feels the world would be better off if more people knew about their work. They also probably have the expertise to personally make many contributions to Wikipedia. At the same time Wikipedia is a great source of information for many around the world. I think it's important to try to make sure that it retains it's effectiveness and focus as encyclopedic content. In my view the guidelines that have been established are pretty effective at helping users police and maintain that effectiveness and that's to the benefit of everyone, even the business owner, that he/she may live in a more informed and educated world. Hopefully the owner of the site will add whatever information they feel is lacking in the article (or other relevant articles new or existing) to the content of the article without reference to their particular services.

Commercial references can create a race to the bottom as other businesses feel they should then post their site to maintain or gain a competitive advantage. Such postings make the articles less trust-able and less effective at educating and informing while at the same time consuming more of the time of those who seek to make the world a little better by contributing. --Editoraq12345 (talk) 04:44, 13 March 2010 (UTC)