ARPHA

This FAIRsharing record describes: ARPHA is a full-featured open access publishing platform for journals, books and data, with managed hosting services. This Software as a Service (SaaS) allows users to build their own publishing solution to manage and host journals, books, conference abstracts, proceedings and institutional documents all utilising the same back end. The repository provides tailored views of the repository specific to individual stakeholders such as journals, conference organisers and publishers. The platform offers other additional service modules, including website design and setup, production, semantic markup, distribution, archiving, indexing, promotion and journal management. ARPHA stands for: Authoring, Reviewing, Publishing, Hosting and Archiving. The platform supports the full manuscript life cycle within a single, XML-based environment, from authoring through peer review, publication and dissemination. At the core of the ARPHA-XML is the collaborative authoring ARPHA Writing Tool (AWT). ARPHA-XML is the host of the Biodiversity Data Journal, RIO Journal, and others.