[Taxacom] Demise of Phyloinformatics journal

[Thomas Lammers]

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From: Roderic Page <r.page at bio.gla.ac.uk>

> The Open Access web-only journal "Phyloinformatics" seems to have disappeared, with the Internet address http://www.phyloinformatics.org now up for sale. This means the articles have just disappeared!
There weren't many papers published, but some were interesting and have been cited in the mainstream literature. This also illustrates the problems with linking to digital resources using URLs, as opposed to identifiers such as DOIs. With the loss of  the domain name, this journal has effectively died.  A sobering lesson...<

Indeed.  Particularly for those who think the Codes should permit description of new taxa electronically.   This highlights what utter nonsense and folly such a move would be.  Chasing after "the latest thing" and "the current trend" is fine for teenyboppers, fashion, and music.  As scientists, however, we have an obligation to posterity to eschew such foolishness. 

Tom Lammers