The lab has been collecting Hawaiian Diptera for over 15 years now and we have a large amount of unpublished data on species distributions, identification resources and new species of various fly groups.  I decided to try a new journal as an outlet for these types of data.  The Biodiversity Data Journal (BDJ) is a peer-reviewed journal published by Pensoft.  It offers a unique, online paper authoring and revision format that works very well with catalogs, species descriptions and identification keys.  All distribution data is input in Darwin Core format and made available for download as CSV files.  It is also ported to GBIF.  BDJ is also a rapid outlet so papers can appear within a few weeks of initial submission.

My plan is to publish a series of papers on Hawaiiain Diptera.  The first, a number of new island records for the endemic Hawaiian Asteia, was just published.  Look for future papers on Limoniidae, Canacidae, Ephydridae and (of course) Drosophilidae.