1. At the frontline of publishing in systematic zoology: A presentation of ZooKeys Lyubomir Penev 1, Terry Erwin 2, Jeremy Miller 3 1 Pensoft Publishers, Sofia, Bulgaria 2 Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA 3 Naturalis, Leiden, The Netherlands

2. Why ZooKeys is needed? Public demand for open access to biodiversity data and especially to descriptions of new taxa Public demand for open access to biodiversity data and especially to descriptions of new taxa Electronic publication gaining acceptance among systematists; lively discussions on its compliance to the 4th ICZN; proposals for amendments to the new (5 th ) edition of the Code published in October 2008 Electronic publication gaining acceptance among systematists; lively discussions on its compliance to the 4th ICZN; proposals for amendments to the new (5 th ) edition of the Code published in October 2008 ZooBank: attempt to establish a central resource for the registration and validation of new taxon names ZooBank: attempt to establish a central resource for the registration and validation of new taxon names LSID: unique identifier for biological information, including (but not limited to) taxon names LSID: unique identifier for biological information, including (but not limited to) taxon names Semantic Web enhancements promote connections Semantic Web enhancements promote connections Data publication seems to soon become an indispensable part of taxonomic papers Data publication seems to soon become an indispensable part of taxonomic papers Dissemination of published results becomes at least as important as the publication itself! Dissemination of published results becomes at least as important as the publication itself!

3. The Present Launched on 4 th of July 2008 ; 52 issues published, >8000 pages, more than 3000 registered users within two years! Impact factor of 1.133 gained within 2.5 years; covered by Scopus, Google Scholar, Zoological Record and CABI; accepted for archiving in PubMedCentral The first mandatory open access journal in systematic zoology The first mandatory ZooBank registration of all new taxa Official partners of GBIF and EOL; occurrence dataset supplied to GBIF on the day of publication All new taxa supplied through XML mark up to EOL and Plazi, as well as to Wikispecies on the day of publication CrossRef member, DOI provided to articles and supplementary data files Online and full-colour print versions; no restrictions in colour and no charges for it Online editorial management system facilitating efficient review and manuscript workflow Fast publication: typically 3-4 weeks for review, 3-7 days for publication after acceptance Broad coverage – taxonomy, phylogeny, biogeography, checklists, conference proceedings, special issues, monographs, Festschrift volumes

4. Life Cycle of a Traditional Publication Integrated with Online Enhancements Manuscript Locality data file Submission, peer-review, editing Proofs LSID PublicationLocality KML file Morphbank Genbank XML MARK UP IPT Google Earth Zoological Record Archives Indexing services ISI Impact factor Locality data file DOI Morphbank Genbank Occurrence data DOI IPT KML file LSID XML MARK UP

6. The occurrence dataset in GBIF IPT

7. The occurrence dataset in Google Earth and Morphbank

8. Species descriptions on EOL XML MARK UP

10. Online Keys in Multiple Formats

11. The ZooKeys Model of Publishing Interactive Keys Manuscript Data matrices and images Submission, peer-review, editing Proofs DOI Publication DOI Key files Zoological Record Indexing services Archives Supplementary data files published Data matrices, images, key files Lucid DELTA Intkey IDENTIFY ONLINE MX EDIT/CHANGE KEYS Lucid TranslatorNexus ISI Impact factor Pre-submission Peer-review, editing Publication, dissemination, archiving

17. The Future More semantic Web Enhancements! Automated creation and submission of XML marked up manuscripts from databases/data aggregators (e.g., Scratchpads, GBIF) Hyperlinking of images Make all these processes a routine practice!

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