Useful life of CDROM

[Richard Zander]

Well, that's a good point to think about. Of course there are operating
e-journals that deal with systematics (mostly ecology, physiology and
molecular stuff) already in place, run by responsible institutions, see e.g.
the recent HighWire posting, though any new botanical names are not now
valid if published in them. Perhaps an electronic version of a standard
botanical journal in which names are now often published (Taxon, specialty
journals) might have each an e-addendum for new names.

My point is that I'd like to see a standard library (not a for-profit
company that may go bust in a few years) archive and make available for free
over the very long-term a scientific e-journal wholely or in part dedicated
to new names and published in a format dubbed "standard" by librarians who
are concerned with long-term archiving and access.

It may be that HighWire http://highwire.stanford.edu/ intends to perform
this public library function over the very long term, and its formats seem
flexible and standard. To me. But I'm not a librarian.

Richard

----- Original Message -----
From: Doug Yanega <dyanega at POP.UCR.EDU>
To: <TAXACOM at USOBI.ORG>
Sent: Friday, July 16, 1999 2:07 PM
Subject: Re: Useful life of CDROM


> Ricahrd Zander wrote:
>
> >I think that an operating e-journal and an operating free e-library  must
be
> >in place before the botanical Code is changed.
>
> ??? If the Code does not already indicate such publications are valid, how
> would one have an operating e-journal? Who would submit papers they know
> are not valid? Is it just my imagination or have you put the cart before
> the horse here?
>
> Peace,
>
>
> Doug Yanega       Dept. of Entomology           Entomology Research Museum
> Univ. of California - Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521
> phone: (909) 787-4315 (standard disclaimer: opinions are mine, not UCR's)
>                 http://insects.ucr.edu/staff/yanega.html
>   "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness
>         is the true method" - Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chap. 82



Richard H. Zander, Curator of Botany
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