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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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• 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:

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