Scientific publisher Pensoft Publishers has announced the launch of a new open access journal - Nature Conservation. The journal joins Pensoft’s family of high technology open-access journals for biodiversity science.
Nature Conservation seeks to mobilise ideas and data in all theoretical and applied aspects of nature conservation – biological, ecological, societal, economic, and legal. The journal’s broad scope and innovative use of media encourage interdisciplinary and integrative approaches.
The journal is a platform for both innovative technologies and a routine medium for publication of data related to the vast area of basic and applied research in conservation of nature. It builds upon the success of its sister journals ZooKeys, PhytoKeys, BioRisk, and NeoBiota, and is supported by an editorial team of highly renowned specialists in the field. The composition of papers in the inaugural issue largely reflects the focus and scope of the new journal, which are also outlined in the opening Editorial paper.
The journal was established within the framework of the European Union's Framework Program 7 large-integrated project SCALES: Securing the Conservation of biodiversity across Administrative Levels and spatial, temporal, and Ecological Scales.
Like the rest of Pensoft's journals, Nature Conservation will be published in four different formats - high-resolution, full-colour print version; PDF, identical to the printed version; HTML version on the journals website, in order to provide links to external resources and semantic enhancements for published texts and interactive reading; and XML version, compatible with PubMedCentral archiving, thus providing a machine-readable copy to facilitate future data mining.
