[BOAI] launch of Journal of Hymenoptera Research as gold open access and NLM taxpub journal

[Donat Agosti]

On February 8, Pensoft published the first gold Open Access and NLM Taxpub
based issue of the Journal of Hymenoptera Research. It is one of the first
journals Pensoft publishes for a scientific society. The implication are
beyond changing from a traditional pdf based to a semantically enhanced
journal allowing immediate distribution of its content to a set of external
aggregators such as Plazi, Encylopedia of Life, Wikispecied or the Global
Biodiversity Information Facility, and not least PubMed for archival, one of
the big issues in taxonomic literature. The big question will be, how the
journal will break even, will it attract more readers, and whether the
members of the society will continue their annual subscription now that one
of the returns is open and freely available.


http://www.pensoft.net/journals/jhr Journal of Hymenoptera Resarch 
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK47081/ Taxpub: An extension of the
NLM/NCBI Journal Publishing DTD
http://tinyurl.com/4cz699e The history of taxpub publishing at Pensoft



Donat Agosti


Dr. Donat Agosti


President

Plazi

Research Associate, American Museum of Natural History and Naturmuseum der
Burgergemeinde Bern

Email: agosti at amnh.org

Web: http://antbase.org / http://plazi.org

Blog: http://biodivcontext.blogspot.com/

Skype: agostileu



 

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