Why submit an extended abstract in BISS?

My abstract was already accepted for the conference, why should I expand and publish it as part of the Living Data 2025 conference proceedings in Biodiversity Information Science and Standards (BISS)?

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Last updated 14 August 2025

Each extended abstract published in BISS is a peer-reviewed mini-paper designed to provide you with a value-added, easily citable snapshot of your work. It is not a verbatim repetition of the abstract submitted to the conference platform. Using Pensoft’s ARPHA writing tool, you can enhance and lengthen your abstract, so that it includes figures, keywords, references, even supplementary materials. Slides, posters, and a link to the video of your presentation may also be added to the abstract’s media tab after the conference, to build a well-rounded presentation of your work. Each published abstract can link to your ORCID, will have a DOI assigned (see below), and provides metrics about views, downloads, citations, or even online mentions of your work.

Abstracts submitted to the conference platform were purposefully kept succinct (≤300 words) to facilitate prompt review for the purposes of programming the conference.

Since 2017, TDWG has been partnering with Pensoft to provide a convenient and technologically advanced scholarly platform for participants at the annual TDWG events to make their conference contributions permanently and efficiently discoverable. On the BISS website, organised by conference, but also by symposium, you can find nine collections, including the annual TDWG events since 2017, the 2019 Biodiversity_Next, and the joint conferences with the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC) in 2018 and 2024.

In 2025, together, we extend the opportunity to have your abstract included in the open access Living Data 2025 collection. This is a benefit of your registration for the conference and acceptance of your presentation.

If the presenter or submitting author is a TDWG member in good standing for 2025 and registered for the conference, there is no additional cost to publishing an extended abstract. Non-TDWG members will be charged a nominal fee of €50 (plus VAT, if applicable*). A limited number of discounts for non-TDWG member authors/presenters, who registered for the conference as students or from countries with discounted registration fees, may be granted upon request. Please contact editor@tdwg.org.

See the Call for Extended Abstracts for how to get started - Deadline for Submission: 1 October 2025.

Additional benefits of publishing an extended abstract include:

  • Free and open access to your abstract in perpetuity via TDWG’s open access Pensoft journal, Biodiversity Information Science and Standards (BISS).
  • Automatic linking of your abstract to your author record via ORCID and/or Web of Science (Publons) ResearcherID.
  • A Digital Object Identifier (DOI) assigned to each abstract. This DOI is a unique, persistent, and citable reference that enables your abstract to be part of your publishing history above and beyond the conference proceedings. Note that during and following the conference, your abstract on the conference platform will only be visible to conference delegates. The abstract will require a login to see it, and will not be publicly accessible. No DOI will be minted for individual abstracts submitted to the conference platform.
  • Distribution of abstracts under the terms of Creative Commons attribution licenses, either CC BY 4.0 (default) or CC0 (by request).
  • At least two editors will review and may provide editorial comments for each abstract.
  • Post-publication, readers can comment or ask questions within the Comment tab in the publication. Authors may also use the Comment tab for updates (see example here) or errata.
  • To prompt discoverability, all articles, including abstracts, are automatically harvested upon publication by a range of indexers, from AGRICOLA to ZDB.
  • Abstracts will be associated with the conference session in which they are presented.
  • Easy to promote your presentation by sharing your abstract on Bluesky, X (formerly Twitter), Facebook, Telegram, Mendeley, Reddit, or via email with a single click, thanks to share buttons.

* VAT is applicable only for VAT NON-registered customers based within the European Union. To avoid being charged VAT, the EU companies or persons should provide their VAT registration numbers validated with the EU taxation database (https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/vies/).