%0 Journal Article %T Open minded and open access: introducing NeoBiota, a new peer-reviewed journal of biological invasions %A Ingolf K¨¹hn %A Ingo Kowarik %A Johannes Kollmann %A Uwe Starfinger %J NeoBiota %D 2011 %I %R 10.3897/neobiota.9.1835 %X The Editorial presents the focus, scope, policies, and the inaugural issue of NeoBiota, a new open access peer-reviewed journal of biological invasions. The new journal NeoBiota is a continuation of the former NEOBIOTA publication series. The journal will deal with all aspects of invasion biology and impose no restrictions on manuscript size neither on use of color. NeoBiota implies an XML-based editorial workflow and several cutting-edge innovations in publishing and dissemination, such as semantic markup of and enhancements to published texts, data publication, and extensive cross-linking within the journal and to external sources. %K NeoBiota %K invasion biology %K alien species %K semantic markup %K semantic enhancements %K data publishing %U http://www.pensoft.net/journals/neobiota/article/1835/