Abstract
The CODATA Data Science Journal is a peer-reviewed, open access, electronic journal, publishing papers on the management, dissemination, use and reuse of research data and databases across all research domains, including science, technology, the humanities and the arts. The scope of the journal includes descriptions of data systems, their implementations and their publication, applications, infrastructures, software, legal, reproducibility and transparency issues, the availability and usability of complex datasets, and with a particular focus on the principles, policies and practices for open data.All data is in scope, whether born digital or converted from other sources.
Highlights
Information technology has come up as an extremely powerful tool for disseminating information and has capacity to reach at a faster and wider range
To reduce the digital gap between the scholars from developed and developing countries, barrier free open access mechanism is necessary for vital research (Smith, 2003), which can be accessed through journals, archives, repositories and databases that are operated on open access principles
Data and information on biodiversity is a must in wide range of scientific studies such as ecological niche modeling and forecasting, phylogeny, DNA barcoding, education leading to conservation, environmental monitoring, natural resource management, socioeconomic aspect with respect to valuing ecosystem services (Costanza, d’Arge, de Groot, Farber, Grasso, Hannon, et al, 1997), use of natural wealth for human welfare and for decision makers to set up policies for sustainable conservation (Canhos, Souza, Giovanni, & Canhos, 2004)
Summary
Information technology has come up as an extremely powerful tool for disseminating information and has capacity to reach at a faster and wider range. Emerging developing nations such as India, China, Brazil, and under-developed regions like Africa are “biodiversity storehouses” with unique taxa and species diversity (Peterson, Vieglais, Siguenza, & Silva, 2003) Information on this “biodiversity storehouse” is accessible through major. The important publishers from developed countries such as Elsevier, Harvard University Press, and Blackwell advocate the loss of revenue and copyright issues due to providing the open access to all (Agosti, 2005). This is contrary to the fact that for scientific studies and sustainable management of this biotic diversity, information has to be made accessible to all when and where needed (Lane, 2000). Researchers and scholars across the globe need to make concerted efforts in taking advantage of technology and share biodiversity information
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