[GOAL] Re: new platinum open access

[Richard Poynder]

Thanks for posting this Donat,

I am curious as to how much the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin is paying
Pensoft to publish these journals, and I would think others on the list
might be too. Unfortunately, when I asked Pensoft for the information I was
told that it was confidential. Since the data would help other
journals/organisations looking to pursue the so-called "platinum road" it
seems a shame. Would you agree?

Richard Poynder



-----Original Message-----
From: goal-bounces at eprints.org [mailto:goal-bounces at eprints.org] On Behalf
Of Donat Agosti
Sent: 19 December 2013 09:35
To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)
Subject: [GOAL] new platinum open access

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.