The NBII Program produces a variety of publications each year, including fact sheets about our Program, nodes, projects, and partners; presentations made at meetings and conferences; white papers and proceedings from workshops; program management documents; and our quarterly newsletter, Access. In addition, we are proud to co-sponsor the new, open-access eJournal Sustainability: Science, Practice, and Policy, with our partner, CSA.
An Open Access e-Journal Dedicated to Sustainability Issues
Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy is a peer-reviewed, open access journal that provides a platform for the dissemination of new practices and for dialogue emerging out of the field of sustainability. The e-Journal fills a gap in the literature by establishing a forum for cross-disciplinary discussion of empirical and social sciences, practices, and policies related to sustainability. Sustainability will facilitate communication among scientists, practitioners, and policy makers who are investigating and shaping nature-society interactions and working towards sustainable solutions.
Co-published by the NBII and CSA/ProQuest, a worldwide information company specializing in publishing and distributing bibliographic and full-text databases and journals in the natural sciences, the e-Journal's primary mission is the dissemintation of information on sustainability science issues in support of a greater global exchange of knowledge. The e-Journal is available free to all to read, download, copy, and reproduce for any scientific purposes
DataONE: Enabling Data-Intensive Biological and Environmental Research
An introductory briefing on DataONE, a new informatics initiative sponsored by the National Science Foundation that will build upon and expand the cyberinfrastructure necessary to support long-term data archiving and data access for the biological and ecological research communities. Through a distributed network of coordinating and partner nodes, DataONE will engage both the research and citizen science communities to provide access to quality data, facilitate best practices in data management and metadata, and connect scientists through global communities of practice.
NBII is a major partner in DataONE.
The NBII Program is administered by the Biological Informatics Office of the U.S. Geological Survey
