ARPHA is a next-generation journal publishing platform developed by Pensoft Publishers that provides flexible, end-to-end services for scholarly publishing. It offers two different workflows for journal publishing - one based on XML and one based on traditional document formats. ARPHA supports the entire publishing process, including authoring, peer review, production, semantic enhancements, publication, archiving, and dissemination. It aims to advance open science practices through open access, open data, and linked open data.

1. ARPHA
Next-Generation Journal
Publishing
Lyubomir Penev
Pensoft Publishers & Bulgarian Academy of Sciences,
Sofia, Bulgaria
Frankfurt Book Fair, 20th of October 2016

2. Some facts about Pensoft
Founded in 1992
Headquarters in Sofia
Now 25 permanent employees

4. Pensoft Open Access Journals

5. Pensoft Book Program
More than 1000 book titles since 1994 Advanced Open Access Books

6. Academic publishing in transition
Open access Open science
Human-readable Machine-readable
Data publishing Data re-use
Impact Factor Article-Level Metrics
Publishing Technology-driven
Service
Technology Critical for journals’
survival

7. What is ARPHA?

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

9. The “XML Question”
of the journal publishing platforms
XML-First ?
OR
XML-Middle ?
OR
XML-End ?
OR
No-XML ?

10. ARPHA
simply provides them all!

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End-to-End
Publishing Platform + Services

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ARPHA supports individual journals...

13. … and multiple-journal platforms

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Integrated with other systems via
web services & data exchange

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ARPHA is flexible

16. ARPHA demonstration
Authoring & Input
Submission
Peer-review
Production
Semantic enhancements
Publication
Archiving
Dissemination

17. • Authoring
• Data import
• Peer-review
• Publication
• Dissemination
+
Next-Gen taxonomy requires Next-Gen publishing
All within a single
online collaborative
platform
ARPHA-XML Workflow

18. Getting started: Step 1

19. Getting started: Step 2

20. Getting started: Step 3

21. Invite co-authors

22. Work with your coauthors & peers online

23. Import a figure, or video

24. Cited figures (rе-)placed automatically

25. Direct search & import of references

26. Online import of structured data

27. Example: Species occurrence data

29. Generate and import an entire manuscript

30. Mandatory validation step

31. ‘Embedded’ copyeditor

32. 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-
house
Post-submission, pre-publication
Post-publication

35. Pre-submission review in ARPHA-XML

36. Invite pre-submission reviewers

37. Pre-submission technical evaluation

38. Email notifications

39. Email reminders & flow control

40. Getting on the manuscript page

41. Community peer-review

42. Customizable email notifications

43. Reviews consolidated in one version

44. Post-publication review

45. Open & public review

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Production
ARPHA-XML: NO PDF Proof, all
proofing and copyediting process takes
place online
ARPHA-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 tool
Generic & domain-specific markup
Use of vocabularies & ontologies
Linking to external resources
Assembling on-the-fly of web
profiles for specific terms

48. Automated mapping

49. Look at the locality

50. Taxon profile in real timeSpecies profiles in real time

51. Species profiles in real time

52. Tables & Figures

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Archiving via API on the day of publication

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Next day on Zenodo

55. Sub-article-level metrics

56. Update your article anytime
Update your article

57. Journal management stats

58. Usage metricsDissemination & PR

59. Usage metricsJohny Cash’s tarantula on SkyNews

60. Usage metrics
Collaboration with NatGeo, BBC, NYT,
Gardian and other media

61. a low-cost high-tech
solution!

62. The Future

63. In the coming years ARPHA
will foxus on
Open Science
Linked Open Data
Knowledge Base

64. Nanopublications
Credit: nanopub.org

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

66. RIO’s unique features
Publishing ALL outcomes of a research cycle
Peer-review: open & public, multi-stage, pre-
submission, in-house, post-publication
Authors decide how to peer-review their
manuscripts
Authors can publish article revised versions
anytime
All published articles mapped to the UN’s
Sustainability Development Goals (SDGs)

67. I Open Science!
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