Scholarly publisher Pensoft has announced journal Check List as the latest biodiversity-themed title to join its peer-reviewed and open access family. Its first issue in collaboration with Pensoft is now published on the journal's new website.
Check List is an online open access journal launched in 2005 in Brazil. It publishes distribution summaries, annotated lists of species and notes on the geographic distribution of all taxa. The journal stands for the idea that maintaining records of the range of a species is the very first step towards undertaking effective actions for its conservation. Furthermore, its team believes that publishing such data provides the baseline for biodiversity preservation as a whole.
The move sees Check List migrating to the Pensoft-developed journal publishing platform ARPHA (Authoring, Reviewing, Publishing, Hosting and Archiving) to provide its authors, editors and users with a brand new look and feel along with a whole set of high-tech perks.
While the all-new sleek interface is evident at first visit of the Check List's new website, there is much more under the surface. The partnership with Pensoft and ARPHA means that the journal will enjoy fast-track and convenient publishing. The manuscripts will be taken care for from the authoring stage, through reviewing and dissemination - all the way to archiving. The papers will be published in three formats (PDF, XML, HTML) and full of semantic enhancements.
Recognising the importance of easy and efficient publication of accessible data in the spirit of both biodiversity conservation and open science, ARPHA allows for data to be published as supplementary files along with the article, or through internationally recognised repositories, such as GBIF, Genbank, Barcode of Life, Dryad, and others.
Check List is the second scholarly journal of South American origin to join Pensoft's growing portfolio, after another highly regarded Brazilian-born academic title - Zoologia - moved to ARPHA earlier this year.
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