Fast, linked, and open – the future of taxonomic publishing for plants: launching the journal PhytoKeys

Penev, Lyubomir; Kress, W. John; Knapp, Sandra; Li, De-Zhu and Renner, Susanne S. (2010): Fast, linked, and open – the future of taxonomic publishing for plants: launching the journal PhytoKeys. In: PhytoKeys, Vol. 1: pp. 1-14

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 International Code of Botanical Nomenclature (ICBN).

• Item Type: Journal article
• Form of publication: Publisher's Version
• Keywords: E-publications, open access, semantic tagging, semantic enhancements, plant systematics
• Faculties: Biology
• Subjects: 500 Science > 570 Life sciences; biology
• ISSN: 1314-2003
• Language: English