ARPHA-BioDiv: A toolbox for scholarly publication and dissemination of biodiversity data based on the ARPHA Publishing Platform

Abstract

The ARPHA-BioDiv Тoolbox for Scholarly Publishing and Dissemination of Biodiversity Data is a set of standards, guidelines, recommendations, tools, workflows, journals and services, based on the ARPHA Publishing Platform of Pensoft, designed to ease scholarly publishing of biodiversity and biodiversity-related data that are of primary interest to EU BON and GEO BON networks. ARPHA-BioDiv is based on the infrastructure, knowledge and exeprience gathered in the years-long research, development and publishing activities of Pensoft, upgraded with novel tools and workflows that resulted from the FP7 project EU BON.