arpha: next-generation journal publishing

ARPHA Next-Generation Journal

Publishing

Lyubomir PenevPensoft Publishers & Bulgarian Academy of Sciences,

Sofia, Bulgaria

Frankfurt Book Fair, 20th of October 2016

Some facts about Pensoft

Founded in 1992Headquarters in SofiaNow 25 permanent employees

Pensoft Open Access Journals

Pensoft Book Program

More than 1000 book titles since 1994 Advanced Open Access Books

Academic publishing in transition

Open access Open science Human-readable Machine-readableData publishing Data re-useImpact Factor Article-Level MetricsPublishing Technology-driven

ServiceTechnology Critical for journals’

survival

What is ARPHA?

Two Journal Publishing Workflows:ARPHA-XML & ARPHA-DOC

The “XML Question” of the journal publishing platforms

XML-First ?OR

XML-Middle ?OR

XML-End ?OR

No-XML ?

ARPHAsimply provides them all!

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End-to-End Publishing Platform + Services

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ARPHA supports individual journals...

… and multiple-journal platforms

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Integrated with other systems via web services & data exchange

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ARPHA is flexible

ARPHA demonstration

Authoring & InputSubmissionPeer-reviewProduction Semantic enhancementsPublicationArchivingDissemination

• Authoring• Data import• Peer-review• Publication• Dissemination

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Next-Gen taxonomy requires Next-Gen publishing

All within a single online collaborative platform

ARPHA-XML Workflow

Getting started: Step 1

Getting started: Step 2

Getting started: Step 3

Invite co-authors

Work with your coauthors & peers online

Import a figure, or video

Cited figures (rе-)placed automatically

Direct search & import of references

Online import of structured data

Example: Species occurrence data

Generate and import an entire manuscript

Mandatory validation step

‘Embedded’ copyeditor

Revision history

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Customizable submission steps

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The Peer Review in ARPHA

Pre-submission, during the authoring process Pre-submission, technical evaluation in-housePost-submission, pre-publicationPost-publication

Pre-submission review in ARPHA-XML

Invite pre-submission reviewers

Pre-submission technical evaluation

Email notifications

Email reminders & flow control

Getting on the manuscript page

Community peer-review

Customizable email notifications

Reviews consolidated in one version

Post-publication review

Open & public review

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Production

ARPHA-XML: NO PDF Proof, all proofing and copyediting process takes place onlineARPHA-DOC: approved PDF proof exported to a semantic layer for XML tagging and semantic enhancements

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Semantic Layer:XML tagging & HTML enhancements

XML tagging toolGeneric & domain-specific markupUse of vocabularies & ontologiesLinking to external resourcesAssembling on-the-fly of web profiles for specific terms

Automated mapping

Look at the locality

Taxon profile in real timeSpecies profiles in real time

Species profiles in real time

Tables & Figures

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Archiving via API on the day of publication

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Next day on Zenodo

Sub-article-level metrics

Update your article anytime

Update your article

Journal management stats

Usage metricsDissemination & PR

Usage metricsJohny Cash’s tarantula on SkyNews

Usage metricsCollaboration with NatGeo, BBC, NYT, Gardian and other media

a low-cost high-tech solution!

The Future

In the coming years ARPHA will foxus on

Open Science Linked Open DataKnowledge Base

Nanopublications

Credit: nanopub.org

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QKp4Ttpemw

RIO’s unique features

Publishing ALL outcomes of a research cyclePeer-review: open & public, multi-stage, pre-submission, in-house, post-publicationAuthors decide how to peer-review their manuscriptsAuthors can publish article revised versions anytimeAll published articles mapped to the UN’s Sustainability Development Goals (SDGs)

I Open Science!

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