Building: Grand Hotel Mediterraneo
Room: Africa (formerly America del Sud)
Date: 2013-10-31 11:45 AM – 12:00 PM
Last modified: 2013-10-08
Abstract
The Biodiversity Data Journal (BDJ) and associated Pensoft Writing Tool (PWT), launched within the EU's Seventh Framework Project (FP7) project ViBRANT, creating several, globally unique, innovations:
(1) The first work flow ever to support the full life cycle of a manuscript, from writing through submission, community peer-review, publication and dissemination within a single online collaborative platform.
(2) The online, collaborative, article-authoring platform Pensoft Writing Tool (PWT) provides a large set of pre-defined, but flexible, Biological Codes and Darwin Core-compliant article templates.
(3) Authors may work collaboratively on a manuscript and invite external contributors, such as mentors, potential reviewers, linguistic and copy editors, colleagues, all who may watch and comment on the text before submission. These comments can be submitted along with the manuscript for editor’s consideration.
(4) Import/export conversion of data files into text and vice versa; conversion from text to data, items such as checklists, catalogues and occurrence data in Darwin Core format, simply at the click of a button.
(5) Automated import of data-structured manuscripts generated in various platforms (Scratchpads, GBIF Integrated Publishing Toolkit (IPT), authors’ databases).
(6) A novel community-based pre-publication peer-review and possibilities to comment after publication (post-publication peer-review). Authors may also opt for an entirely public peer-review process. Reviewers may opt to be anonymous or to disclose their names.
BDJ publishes papers in all branches of biodiversity science, and has no lower or upper limit on manuscript size. It will publish (1) single taxon treatments (e.g., new taxa, new taxon names, new synonyms, re-descriptions, etc.); (2) data papers describing biodiversity-related databases; (3) local/regional or habitat-based checklists/inventories; (4) ecological and biological observations of species and communities; (5) identification keys, from conventional dichotomous to multi-access interactive keys; and (6) descriptions of biodiversity-related software tools.