Procon launches a series of data journals

Procon launched its series of open-access data journals under the title datajournals.eu.

The series will feature papers from several scientific disciplines describing research or clinical data and providing access to it. Both papers and datasets are peer-reviewed to guarantee quality and utility of the data. Journals will be indexed in major relevant databases.

The publication of a data paper in one of the data journals guarantees that researchers and laboratory personnel, who have often spent thousands of hours in collecting the data, receive proper scientific credit and an opportunity that their work is utilized and cited by other researchers.

The Biomedical Data Journal (BMDJ) is the first journal in the series, launched in 2014 within the EU FP7 project OpenScienceLink.