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Species Conservation Profile (SCP): a streamlined workflow for collaborative
authoring, peer-review and scholarly publication, serving the IUCN Red Data List
Lyubomir Penev1,2, Pavel Stoev1,2, Teodor Georgiev1, Viktor Senderov1,2, Pedro Cardoso3
1Bulgarian Academy of Sciences & 2Pensoft Publishers, Sofia, Bulgaria3Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki, Finland
Island Biology Conference, Terceira, Azores, July 2016
Some facts about Pensoft
Launched by scientists for the scientists
Founded in 1992Now 25 permanent employeesMore than 1000 books publishedZooKeys launched in 2008, now 20 journalsBiodiversity Data Journal (BDJ) in 2013, 300 % growth last yearOne Ecosystem and Research Ideas and Outcomes (RIO) Journal launched in 2015
Pensoft Open Access Journals
ARPHA Journal Publishing Platform
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.. perhaps it’s time to look for a better home for your Society or Institutional
journal?
• 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
PENSOFT & ARPHA help to create & publish IUCN-compliant Species Conservation Profiles
The IUCN Red List Species Page
IUCN Species Page = Scholarly Publication
Why do this?A permanent scientific record for Species Pages in a journal Citation and creditCollaborative peer-review and assessmentPowerful tool for expert engagement (e.g. taxonomists)Extended media-rich descriptions of species of conservation importancePublication in both human- (semantic HTML, PDF) and machine-readable (XML) format Article- and Sub-Article-Level MetricsStreamlined continuous update of IUCN species profiles via ARPHADissemination via the journal industry networksPermanent archiving in PubMedCentral, Zenodo and CLOCKS
Getting started – Step 1
Getting started – Step 2
Getting started – Step 3
Invite co-authors
Invite pre-submission reviewers
Import data into manuscript
Insert citations of literature, figs, tabs
Search and import references online
Write/Edit in IUCN-compliant interface
Create plates
Embedded copyeditor
Automated technical check
Work with your coauthors & peers online
Consolidated reviews for editors
Usage metrics(Sub-)Article-Level Metrics
This is how data look like in the published paper
Look at the locality
Taxon names and their usages
Taxon profile in real timeOnline taxon profiles in real time
Online taxon profiles in real time
Update your article anytime
Update your article
PDF and XML publishing formats
<taxon-name-part taxon-name-part-type="genus">Nixonia</taxon-name-part> <taxon-name-part taxon-name-part-type="species">masneri</taxon-name-part> </taxon-name>- <taxon-author> <string-name>van Noort & Johnson</string-name> </taxon-author> <taxon-status>sp. n.</taxon-status> <xref>Figures 1A-F</xref>
This is how it started
Descriptions
Images
Occurrences
Title
Metadata
From BDJ to IUCN via XML
European Commission: EUBON FP7 ProjectEuropean Commission: PhD Financed through the EU Marie-Sklodovska-Curie Program Grant Agreement Nr. 642241IUCN SSC Group Pensoft developers teamSlavena Peneva (drawings and design)
Our sincere thanks are due to:
I Open Science!
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