Scientific publisher Pensoft Publishers has announced their data publishing policies and guidelines for biodiversity data. The move is in response to the increasing demands from institutions and scientists to open scientific data to anyone who would be interested to use them.
The core of the data publishing project is the concept of 'Data Paper' developed in cooperation with the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). Data Papers are peer-reviewed scholarly publications that describe the published datasets and provide an opportunity for data authors to receive academic credit for their efforts.
Data Paper manuscripts contain all the important elements of the descriptions of the data (metadata) and are submitted to publishers by a 'push-a-button' mechanism. Once submitted, the manuscripts undergo peer-review and editorial process. The Global Unique Identifier (GUID) of the published dataset is cross-linked to the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) of the data paper, to allow further possibilities for data usage and data citation metrics.
Currently, Pensoft offers the opportunity to publish Data Papers describing species occurrence data and checklists; Barcode-of-Life genome data; and biodiversity-related software tools, such as interactive keys or others.
Pensoft has reached an agreement for cooperation in data hosting and developing of data publishing workflows with the GBIF, the Dryad Data Repository and the Consortium for Barcode of Life.
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