New incentive for biodiversity data publishing
Connotea Imports 2012-07-31
Summary:
The Integrated Publishing Toolkit (IPT 2.0.2) from Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) "creates...'Data Papers' from descriptions of datasets (metadata) involving species observations, specimen collections and other biodiversity data....The manuscript can then be submitted to a scientific journal for peer review and possible publication....In the initial phase of the project, custodians and developers of biodiversity data are invited to submit Data Papers to one of four Pensoft [OA] journals: PhytoKeys, ZooKeys, BioRisk and NeoBiota. Two new publications, Biodiversity Data Journal and Nature Conservation, will also shortly be accepting Data Paper manuscripts...."