[GOAL] new platinum open access

[Donat Agosti]

Below a success story for our (taxonomists) goal to not only provide open access but also create semantically enhanced journals based on Taxpub JATS. In this case two old prestigious journals are now published this way.

Donat


 
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-12/pp-tot121813.php




2 of the oldest German journals in Zoology go for 'platinum' open access
Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift and Zoosystematics and Evolution join the family of Pensoft journals
				

Enough has been written and said about "platinum" open access as a step beyond the "green" and "gold" open access models. However, comparatively little has been seen of its practical implementation. On 1 January 2014, two of the oldest German journals in Zoology - Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift and Zoosystematics and Evolution - make a step right into the future by joining the journal publishing platform of Pensoft Publishers and adopting "platinum" open access

For Pensoft, "platinum" open access means not just that the articles and all associated materials are free to download and that there are no author-side fees but even more so that novel approaches are used in the dissemination and reuse of published content. This publishing model includes:

    Free to read, reuse, revise, remix, redistribute
    Easy to discover and harvest by both humans and computers
    Content automatically harvested by aggregators
    Data and narrative integrated to the widest extent possible
    Community peer-review and rapid publication
    Easy and efficient communication with authors and reviewers
    No author-side fees

Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift and Zoosystematics and Evolution are titles of the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, founded in 1857 as Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift, is one of the oldest entomological journals worldwide, and the oldest one in Germany. It publishes original research papers in English on the systematics, taxonomy, phylogeny, comparative morphology, and biogeography of insects. Having long been indexed by Thomson Reuters's Web of Science, now the journal will go on the route of innovation with Pensoft.

Zoosystematics and Evolution, formerly Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin, Zoologische Reihe - is an international, peer-reviewed life science journal devoted to whole-organism biology, that also has a rich history behind itself (established in 1898). It publishes original research and review articles in the field of zoosystematics, evolution, morphology, development and biogeography at all taxonomic levels.