Internet (WWW) publication is not VALID for Zoology

[christian thompson]

The International Code of Zoological Nomenclature specifically EXCLUDES
publication by the World Wide Web, see Art. 9.8.  The reason being that such
publication is not PERMANENT.

However, you can post something on WWW and at the same time distribute a
printed or CD-ROM version, in which case the names and nomenclatural actions
will be available from those publications.  So despite the incorrect
announcement in Nature last Fall about online publication of scientific
names, the scientific names now appearing in "on-line" journals are
available so long as they also appear in a permanent media, such as
"printing on paper" or CD-ROM.



F. Christian Thompson
Systematic Entomology Lab., ARS, USDA
Smithsonian Institution
Washington, D. C. 20560-0169
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>>> Guido Mathieu <gmathieu at WEBFABRIEK.BE> 02/11 10:00 AM >>>
>what about publishing on an Internet website?
>When announced in a taxonomic newsgroup (TAXACOM) the publication is
>widely brought under the attention of the public and the information is
very
>accessible when placed on a webserver. So webpublishing should fit
>all criteria of a valid publication.