Biota Colombiana Volumen 14 Suplemento Artículos de Datos
Being consistent with the world latest innovations regarding biodiversity data publishing and scientific papers,
the SiB Colombia and Biota Colombiana attended for the worldwide call “Activities to enrich metadata and
promote the publication of data paper”. This activity took place in late 2012 and was offered by the Global
Biodiversity information Facility Secretariat (GBIF), with the aim of support proposals to promote worldwide
the publication of Data Papers, papers about biodiversity data.
In this way we are pleased to report that the SiB Colombia and Biota Colombiana were granted by the call in
Latin America. Thus, with the support of GBIF and implementation by the SiB, Biota Colombiana now includes a special section of data papers.
These types of papers are academic publications that have arisen as a mechanism to encourage the publication of biodiversity data, achieving scholarly and professional recognition for people involved in generating and managing biodiversity information.
The data papers should describe as best as possible the Whom, What, Where, When, Why and How to document and record data, without becoming the instrument to make a detailed analysis of the data, as happens in other academic publications. The innovation and improvement of this publishing model relies on the manuscript being always connected to the dataset through a link providing the persistent and reliable web repository of the biodiversity information publishing platform of SiB Colombia.
With the incorporation of this model Biota Colombiana is placed at the vanguard in scientific publications, being the first Latin American journal that incorporates this model and one of the top fifteen worldwide, among which are the journals of Pensoft publishing house.
Fuente:
Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt
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