biodiscovery: advanced open access journal in life sciences and medicine
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Iliyana KuzmovaHead, Press Office, Pensoft
CSDD-2016, Dundee, Scotland, 27-29 July 2016
Some facts about Pensoft
Launched by scientists for the scientists!
Founded in 1992
Now 25 permanent employees
More than 1000 books published, 85% in English
ZooKeys launched in 2008, now 20 journals
Biodiversity Data Journal (BDJ) in 2013, 300 % growth last year
One Ecosystem and Research Ideas and Outcomes (RIO) Journal launched in 2015
About the journalBioDiscovery is an international, open access, online, peer-reviewed journal publishing primary research in the field of life sciences and medicine.
Launched at the BioDundee Conference in 2012A platform for scientists in all areas of biology and medicine to share research and ideasHigh-quality published papers, controlled by distinguished world-class researchers.Media partner of the European BioDiscovery Federation and a number of international conferences in the fieldJoined Pensoft Publishers in May 2016; all previous content available in HTML and PDF from the new platform
What are the new features?
+ =Published on ARPHA, a novel online collaborative platform.
Entirely Web-based editorial and publishing system.
ARPHA Writing Tool: rich set of citing, referencing & import functionalities.
Publishes research outputs along all stages of the research cycle.
Pre-defined, but flexible, article templates covering various outcomes.
Underlying data published as supplementary files to allow re-use.
Several transparent and innovative peer-review options.
Both human- (semantic HTML, PDF) and machine-readable (XML) versions of each publication.
Active dissemination and PR of content.
• Data import• Authoring• Peer-review• Publication• Dissemination
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Next-Gen taxonomy requires Next-Gen publishing
All within a single online collaborative platform, for the first time.
Next-Gen science requires Next-Gen publishing!
ARPHA Journal Publishing Platform
Next-Gen taxonomy requires Next-Gen publishing Let’s see how it works! Step 1
Step 2
Step 3
Invite co-authors
Invite pre-submission reviewers
Upload figures (from flies or URL links)
Search and import references online
Select figure you want to cite at that place
Insert citations of literature, figs, tabs (cited items will be placed automatically)
Publish data as a supplementary file or link to external data repositories
Embedded copyeditor
Automated technical check
Authors can’t re-submit without having attended all comments!
Submission at the click of a button
SUBMIT
Work with your coauthors & peers online
Nominated and Panel reviewers
Consolidated reviews for editors
The published paper
Usage metricsArticle & Sub-Article-Level Usage
Post-publication review
Update your article anytime
Update your article
Usage metricsPreviously published articles already on the new website, thanks to the XML import
Dissemination & Outreach critically important!
We put special effort to make important research known to the world! Content goes to mass media (BBC, NG, The Guardian, NYT, etc.) on the day of publication:
What can we publish in BioDiscovery?
Research ArticleReview ArticleReplication StudyCase StudyData Management PlanData Paper
MethodsConference AbstractMethodsSoftware Management PlanSoftware Description
Active use of social media
Follow us on Twitter
@BioDiscoveryJrn
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Join the community discussions in our Facebook Group:
BioDiscovery open access
journal
By the way…… perhaps it’s time to look for a better home for your Society or Institutional
journal?
We We Open Open ScienceScience!!PLAZI
Thank you for the attention!