Proliferous and Innovative

Next year, the community of Polish botanists will celebrate the centennial of their organized activity marked by the foundation of the Polish Botanical Society in 1922, shortly after the country regained freedom after WWI. A year later, in 1923, the first issue of the Society’s journal Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae was released. This scientific publication quickly became a venue for communicating the most outstanding discoveries in the field of plant biology to the world. Among our most prominent authors were Władysław Szafer, Bogumił Pawłowski, Wacław Gajewski, Zygmunt Hejnowicz, Maria Olszewska, Tomasz Wodzicki, to name the few.

On the special occasion of the PBS centennial, we would like to invite the substantial and significant contributions to the journal from all disciplines of plant biology. They may either review the achievements of various Polish botanical schools in the historical context, or present the facts new to science in the form of original research papers. We will be publishing them continuously in the upcoming year 2022, in Volume 91 of ASBP. All the articles will be branded with a unique logo of PBS anniversary to make the volume of the journal very special. Submissions will undergo the standard peer-review process.

Please take this invitation to heart because the next opportunity comes in 2122!

Let us celebrate! We are looking forward to your positive response, which will surely materialize in excellent submissions. The submission deadline – February 28, 2022.

Manuscript preparation guideline:
https://pbsociety.org.pl/journals/index.php/asbp/about/submissions#authorGuidelines

Journal policies:
https://pbsociety.org.pl/journals/index.php/asbp/about

Submissions:
https://pbsociety.org.pl/journals/index.php/asbp/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions

Beata Zagórska-Marek
Editor-in-Chief of ASBP

We are happy to announce that all our journals included in DOAJ listing have been awarded the DOAJ Seal, as a mark of openness and high publishing standards.

List of PBS journals in DOAJ

As part of the modernization of the PBS publishing practices, we have updated a deposit policy so that authors can now post early versions of a manuscript, i.e., preprint and postprint, online (in digital repositories and personal websites), with the exception that the preprint shouldn’t be available during the review process in any of the Society’s publication to comply with double-blind review requirements.

Please read the copyright notice at PBS editorial platform.

Updated information on the author’s rights to share the work is also available on the SHERPA RoMEO website: https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/id/publisher/1653

Polish Botanical Society has launched official profile on Twitter: https://twitter.com/polbotsoc

We encourage everyone to follow us!

Acta Agrobotanica has been included in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, being part of the Web of Science Core Collection produced by Clarivate Analytics.

Indexing in the database further increases discoverability of the papers published in the journal and potentially their citations.

In this post, important issues related to modernization of the Polish Botanical Society publishing practices are being emphasized, which aims to further improve the standard of the editorial process, having regard also to Plan S. This process will take place in several stages, and subsequent updates will be presented in this post (beginning from the latest updates).
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We are pleased to announce launching of digital repository of the Polish Botanical Society.

The service is available at https://pbsociety.org.pl/repository/

Repository is a database of documents related to the history of the Society and its ongoing initiatives. It will gather official publications and so-far unpublished materials, which constitute documentation of the Society’s scientific, popularizing, and organizational activities.