The manuscript “Strategies and guidelines for scholarly publishing of biodiversity data” provides, in my view, highly relevant and very helpful information on how to provide open access to biodiversity data. Despite the increasing number of collected data, many of the datasets are not findable or available for research or lack the basic requirements for further scientific processing. The manuscript helps the reader to understand the current data publication landscape and gives helpful recommendations for how to publish the data, how to proper cite the datasets and how to handle licensing issues.

Particularly the best practice recommendations and section on how to publish different data types are a needed contribution for researchers. This is a valuable section as many researchers do not know about the possibilities and the paper outlines the options in a structured and condensed way. The suggestions of the review were properly integrated in the manuscript and additional links provided that give the reader some additional information.