Scientific publisher Pensoft Publishers has launched a new open access journal - ZooKeys - on systematic zoology. The journal will be published both online as well as in print. Both versions will be published on the same date in compliance with current International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature requirements.
ZooKeys is a peer-reviewed, open-access, rapidly disseminated journal launched to accelerate research and free information exchange in taxonomy, phylogeny, biogeography and evolution of animals. The journal seeks to apply the latest trends and methodologies in publishing and preservation of digital materials to meet the highest possible standards of the cybertaxonomy era.
ZooKeys will publish papers in systematic zoology containing taxonomic/faunistic data on any taxon of any geological age from any part of the world with no limit to manuscript size. The journal will consider for publishing works on topics such as new descriptions of taxa, if they are accomplished with proper diagnoses, keys and/or revision of at least at species group level; taxonomic revisions of extant (or ''recent'') and fossil animal groups; checklists and catalogues; phylogenetic and evolutionary analyses; papers in descriptive and/or historical biogeography; methodology papers; data mining and literature surveys; monographs, conspecti, atlases; and collections of papers, Festschrift volumes, conference proceedings.
