[Taxacom] New incentive for biodiversity data publishing

[David Patterson]

can you print this out and make sure we discuss it.  I think we need to do
something that links BDMS to this

Paddy

On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 11:08 PM, L Penev <lyubo.penev at gmail.com> wrote:

> A new tool to convert descriptions of biodiversity data into scientific
> journal articles is now available. The aim is to give due recognition to
> efforts by scientists and institutions making data accessible to the wider
> scientific community.
>
> * *
>
> The tool, developed by GBIF in partnership with academic publishers
> Pensoft<http://www.pensoft.net/>,
> creates so-called "Data Papers" from descriptions of datasets (metadata)
> involving species observations, specimen collections and other biodiversity
> data.
>
>
>
> An additional function incorporated into the latest version of GBIF's
> Integrated
> Publishing Toolkit (IPT
> 2.0.2)<http://code.google.com/p/gbif-providertoolkit/>automatically
> generates a manuscript from metadata giving key information
> about a dataset accessible via the GBIF data portal.
>
>
>
> The manuscript can then be submitted to a scientific journal for peer
> review
> and possible publication. As well as providing potential benefits to the
> metadata publisher through citations of the article, the system will alert
> scientists and other users to the availability of "fit for use"
> biodiversity
> data resources.
>
>
>
> In the initial phase of the project, custodians and developers of
> biodiversity data are invited to submit Data Papers to one of four Pensoft
> titles: PhytoKeys <http://www.pensoft.net/journals/phytokeys/>,
> ZooKeys<http://www.pensoft.net/journals/zookeys/>,
> BioRisk <http://www.pensoft.net/journals/biorisk/> and
> NeoBiota<http://www.pensoft.net/journals/neobiota>.
> Two new journals, Biodiversity Data Journal and Nature Conservation, will
> also shortly be accepting Data Paper manuscripts.
>
>
>
> Instructions to authors wishing to submit Data Papers based on metadata
> entered via GBIF’s IPT can be found in the  Data Publishing Policies and G
> uidelines<
> http://www.pensoft.net/J_FILES/Pensoft_Data_Publishing_Policies_and_Guidelines.pdf
> >issued
> by Pensoft.
>
>
>
> More information is available at: GBIF press
> release<
> http://www.gbif.org/communications/news-and-events/showsingle/article/new-incentive-for-biodiversity-data-publishing/
> >and
> Pensoft
> press release<
> http://www.pensoft.net/news.php?n=59&SESID=e9c633b0d0c76f5652de371d89a9726d
> >
> .
>
> --
> Dr Lyubomir Penev
> Managing Director
> Pensoft Publishers
> 13a Geo Milev Street
> 1111 Sofia, Bulgaria
> Fax +359-2-8704282
> www.pensoft.net
> info at pensoft.net
>
>
>
>
> --
> Dr Lyubomir Penev
> Managing Director
> Pensoft Publishers
> 13a Geo Milev Street
> 1111 Sofia, Bulgaria
> Fax +359-2-8704282
> www.pensoft.net
> info at pensoft.net
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Senior Taxonomist, Encyclopedia of Life
Life Sciences Lead, Data Conservancy

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