arpha: next-generation journal publishing
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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
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!
PLAZI
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