Scientific publisher Pensoft Publishers has announced the launch of a new open-access, peer-reviewed, online journal in invasion biology - NeoBiota. Plants helping human parasites, roads as weed highways, and chemical warfare between alien and native plants are some of the topics covered in the new journal. Dr Ingolf Kühn from the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ, Halle, Germany, will serve as Editor-in-Chief of the journal. He will be assisted by an authoritative Editorial Team.
The vision of the Editorial Board on the priority issues and future development of invasion biology is presented in an Editorial co-authored by many leading specialists in biological invasions and published in NeoBiota's inaugural issue.
NeoBiota will pay special attention to increasing public awareness of the challenges posed by biological invasions through an established system of press releases targeted at other publishers, mass media, science and general blogs and social networks amongst others.
The journal provides automated cross-linking through the Pensoft Taxon Profile tool revealing all taxa published. This includes the world's leading indexing and aggregation biodiversity platforms, such as the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), Encyclopedia of Life (EOL), the International Plant Name Index (IPNI), MycoBank, Index Fungorum, ZooBank, the National Center for Biodiversity Information (NCBI), the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), the bibliographic archives PubMed, PubMedCentral, and many others. NeoBiota will also provide a strong support and cutting-edge infrastructure for open data publishing through internationally recognised data repositories, such as GBIF, Genbank, Barcode of Life, Dryad, Pangaea and others.
The journal will publish minimum two more issues by the end of 2011.
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