The Pensoft Journal System and XML-based

workflowLyubomir Penev

Life and Literature Conference, Chicago 2011

ViBRANTVirtual Biodversity

Quick facts about PensoftLaunched in 1992; more than 700 books published, 85 % in English, mostly in biodiversity science and natural history; global scope of authors and partners Operates from two offices, in Sofia and Moscow, 15 employesThe flagship open access journal ZooKeys launched in July 2008; unill now, ZooKeys published 150 issues and more than 18,000 pages; currently published 2-3 times per week; 120 % grow in 2011 in comparison to 2010Content and metadata automatically disseminated to BHL Citebank, Mendeley, EOL, Species-ID, Plazi, Key Central, GBIF, Wkispecies, Wikimedia Commons, etc.CrossRef member, ISI and Scopus covered, indexed in Zoological Record, DOAJ, CABI Abstracts, Google Scholar; archiving in PubMedCentralTRIADA – Pensoft’s digital publishing platform launched in November 2010

Innovations Since July 2010 – all Pensoft journals published through an XML-based editorial worlkflow using the Pensoft Mark Up Tool (PMT) for semantic mark upTools for automated extraction and dissemination of published content based on TaxPub (extension of NLM DTD)Tools for web crawiling and linking of published content to external resources (Pensoft Taxon Profile, PTP)Data publishing workflows integrated with Dryad Data Repository and GBIF

Why XML? Atomization of content

Plazi

Semantic enhancements to published texts

Semantic enhancements to published texts

The lessons learnedThe open access is the only publishing model that allows true and unlimited possibility for innovative publishing!Readers are in love with open accessThe same readers, when becoming authors, are not that enthusiastic to pay for open access (in many cases)Sociological barriers: the majority of authors are not willing to change their writing habits and are still not aware about the tremendous advantages of the Web 2.0 technologiesMost small publishers (and some bigger ones) do not understand the importance of semantic tagging or just cannot afford itCost efficiency – a dramatic gap between production costs and what authors are willing to pay

An automated, “press-a-button” submission of manuscripts, from Scratchpads and authors’ databasesAn automated, “press-a-button” submission of data paper manuscripts, through XML, from the GBIF metadata catalogue – data publishingLaunching of an open-access, “next generation”, Biodiversity Data JournalA new online collaborative editorial platform based on upfront markupNew article-level metrics; Pensoft Reference Tool (PRT) for handling literature references

The Future (plans for 2012)

Development and implementation of any kind of alternative article-level and journal-level metrics Citation tracking mechanisms and citation data exchange with other platformsAtomized content dissemination/exchange/mashupsMarkup services

Collaboration is needed in:

BHL should become a true archive of both historical and recently published biodiversity literatureCiteBank was launched as a repository for bibliographic metadata linked to an online version of an article – really important mission to pursue!DREAM: Close collaboration between CiteBank, Mendeley, ViBRANT’s Bibliography of Life, libraries and publishers for article-level metadata exchange, de-duplication, and reconciliation

On the BHL’s mission and future