The genus Tetranema (Scrophulariaceae) in Costa Rica

[Peter Rauch]

> Date:         Tue, 5 Mar 1996 18:03:10 -0600
> From: Leonard Krishtalka <kris at FALCON.CC.UKANS.EDU>
>
>   Now it's time to start instituting electronic peer-review
> mechanisms that would allow the systematic community to emend the paralytic
> stricture in the Code of having to name new taxa in print in order for them
> to be considered valid.

It's been said before, but ...

We also need a stable, "permanent", publication archive to complement
that electronic peer-review and electronic (only) publication. The
publication and library process that has allowed documents to persist
and be accessed, in many cases for hundreds of years, and in
extraordinary cases for thousands of years, simply hasn't been evolved
adequately yet for electronic media.  Lots of work is going on in the
archiving communities to address this issue however. (The issue isn't
the trivial ability to copy or transcribe from one technological
innovation to the next, etc --that's easy, sort of. It's creating the
infrastructure to support those acts in a context-meaningful way --in this
case, in a way that makes permanent and reliable our access to documentation
of taxonomic discovery (the "context") over the long haul.)
Peter