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Resolving the publishing bottleneck for biodiversity
Science is a combination of gathering facts and making theories; neither can progress on its own. In the history of science, the laborious accumulation of facts is the dominant mode, not a novelty.
Peter Norvig
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Making “small” data big
- No lower/upper limit of manuscript size
- Publish all kinds of biodiversity related data
- Reduced page charges affordable by all
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More than just data journal!
- Integrated text and data publishing
- Completely online revisions and editing
- Community ownership of data
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Community peer-review
- 7 weeks from submission to decision
- 3 days from acceptance to publication
- Public peer-review on author’s choice
ISSN 1314-2828 (online)
Indexed by Scopus, DOAJ and Google Scholar
Archived in PubMedCentral and CLOCKSS
Why publish my data?
- Citable publication
- Increase collaboration
- Re-use and multiply effect
- Establish scientific priority
- Link data to a bigger network
- Respond to funding requirements