Fast, linked, and open – the future of taxonomic publishing for plants: launching the journal PhytoKeys
Penev, L.; Kress, W.J.; Knapp, S.; Li, D.-Z.; Renner, S. (2010). Fast, linked, and open – the future of taxonomic publishing for plants: launching the journal PhytoKeys. PhytoKeys 1: 1-14. https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.1.642
In: PhytoKeys. Pensoft Publishers: Sofia. ISSN 1314-2011; e-ISSN 1314-2003, more
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E-publications, open access, semantic tagging, semantic enhancements, plant systematics |
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- Penev, L.
- Kress, W.J.
- Knapp, S.
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| Abstract |
The paper describes the focus, scope and the rationale of PhytoKeys, a newly established, peer-reviewed, open-access journal in plant systematics. PhytoKeys is launched to respond to four main challenges of our time: (1) Appearance of electronic publications as amendments or even alternatives to paper publications; (2) Open Access (OA) as a new publishing model; (3) Linkage of electronic registers, indices and aggregators that summarize information on biological species through taxonomic names or their persistent identifiers (Globally Unique Identifiers or GUIDs; currently Life Science Identifiers or LSIDs); (4) Web 2.0 technologies that permit the semantic markup of, and semantic enhancements to, published biological texts. The journal will pursue cutting-edge technologies in publication and dissemination of biodiversity information while strictly following the requirements of the current |
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