Authoring, peer-review and publication in one

place, for the first time!Pensoft Journal System (PJS 2.0)

Lyubomir Penev

ViBRANT

OASPA Conference, Riga, 18-20 Sep 2013

The “Publishing Bottleneck (in Biodiversity)”?

What is that?

Massive sampling/data gathering

‘Dark species’ increase dramatically!

Rod Page, iPhylo blogspot, 12 April 2011

The paper/PDF impediment

… the burden or OCR, double-keying and markup of paper/PDF literature

The “impact factor” pressure

The “peer review” pressure

Low uptake of open data publishing/sharing

Source: Wikipedia

Primary data

A solution?

Primary data

Publishing and sharing of primary data

RE-USEof

CONTENT

Launch date

http://biodiversitydatajournal.com

Novel conceptsAuthoring, reviewing and publishing in one place, for the first time!Detailed upfront markup!“Small” datasets imported in and downloadable from text Large datasets published as data papers Text stored and treated as dataCommunity peer-reviewed and community owned interoperable data Narrative (text) and data integrated publishing

How we do that?

COMMUNITY PEER-REVIEW (PENSOFT JOURNAL

SYSTEM 2.0)

COLLABORATIVE ARTICLE AUTHORING (PENSOFT WRITING

TOOL)

MANUSCRIPT PUBLISHEDXML TEXT + DATA

Authors, Reviewers, Editors, Mentors, Copyeditors

Automatedsubmission

Revisions online

ARTICLESOccurr-

ence dataTaxon namesTaxon treatments

Plazi Wiki COL

Biblio-graphies

Novel work flows

AuthoringPeer-review and editorial managerPublishing and dissemination

Article templates

Classifications

Inivte a co-author

External links

Import tabular data

Template

Data converted into text

Compose plates

Pick up a reference

Cite a reference

Novel work flows

AuthoringPeer-review and editorial managerPublishing and dissemination

Community and public peer-review

Now imagine…

Consolidated Review Version

Novel work flow

AuthoringPeer-review and editorial managerPublishing and dissemination

Article metadata

Download data

Map distributions

Taxon names and their usages

Taxon profile

Taxon profile

Tables and Figures

Tables and Figures

Tables and Figures

References

No author guidelines! The tool will guide

you!

Authors do not need to markup or

hyperlink anything!

PWT does this for you!

Embedded copyeditor?

Layout stage skipped!

LOW COST!

Why a new journal?

BDJ is not just a new journalNeither it is a conventional data journal!

A pilot work flow and infrastructure to mobilize, review, publish, store,

disseminate, make interoperable, collate and re-use data

through the act of scholarly publishing!

Imagine how data (if published in this way) can be re-

used…

… across different domains….

XML on GitHub

I Open Access!

PLAZI

Implementation in other domains welcome!

penev@pensoft.net

Drawings: slavenapeneva.com