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ABSTRACT / INTRODUCTION
In the era of data-intensive research and the COVID-19 pandemic, the importance of open, and rapid
dissemination of research has drawn greater attention. With this comes challenges, such as balancing speed
with the quality of peer review, and the requirements of archiving a traditionally static “version of record”
being difficult to balance with the advantages of web-based interactivity. Aiming to tackle these challenges
and to speed up the publishing process using data infrastructure from a non-profit research organisation in
Hong Kong, GigaScience Press has been helping develop a new custom-built platform and workflow using
end-to-end publishing technology that enables accepted manuscripts to be converted to an online and PDFready article within a day.
GigaByte is a new journal that speeds up the publishing process by using new custom-built, end-to-end
publishing technology. A streamlined editorial effort enhances speed by focusing on publishing short-format
data and software-centric articles, which greatly reduces researcher writing time. And in addition, a
questionnaire-style peer review process ensures rapid review with a focus on reuse potential over narrative
value. The publication process integrates with the open GigaScience Database (GigaDB) that serves as a
broad-spectrum repository to display data and tools associated with these publications with the added
benefit of curators being on hand to help the submitter rapidly curate metadata and host data files. Papers
are brought to life by embedding numerous "widgets" in the manuscript and dataset pages. This custom-built
infrastructure and workflow has enabled GigaScience Press to move beyond the traditional static, descriptive
journal article by including embedded content.
Nicole Nogoy is the Executive Editor at GigaScience Press currently based in Wellington, NZ. A research
scientist by training with a degree in Biochemistry and Physiology from Victoria University of Wellington
(NZ), and a PhD in Natural Sciences from the University of Goettingen (Germany), Nicole moved into
publishing and was the launch and Managing Editor at Genome Medicine (BioMed Central). Having seen the
light of open access and open science, Nicole is an open data and open science advocate with over 10 years
of open access and STEM Publishing experience.