[Taxacom] Demise of Phyloinformatics journal

[rjensen at saintmarys.edu]

As I see it, when a publishing company expires, its product does not automatically disappear.  I assume many subscribers (especially libraries) have hardcopy on file.  However, when an on-line publisher expires, there is the *potential* for everyting to disappear with it.  Electronic-only publication is more likely to result in loss of original sources than is hardcopy publication.

The answer to the on-line only scenario is to ensure that there are multiple back-up sites and that these are readily available to those who need access to the works in question.  In a perfect world, that's exactly what will happen.  Not being of a Panglossian-bent, I am not ready to accept that everyone is backing up everything as often as is necessary to ensure that these files will not be lost.

Dick J  


Department of Biology
Saint Mary's College
Notre Dame, IN 46556

----- Original Message -----
From: Richard Petit <r.e.petit at worldnet.att.net>
Date: Friday, November 24, 2006 9:52 am
Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Demise of Phyloinformatics journal

> This posting is a request for clarification and should not be 
> taken 
> otherwise.
> 
> As I read ICZN Article 8.6, in order for any paper in 
> Phyloinformatics to 
> have been "published" at least five copies are on deposit in major 
> libraries 
> which are identified in the work.  This means that CDs are 
> available 
> somewhere.
> 
> My real question is why is there a difference in the demise of an 
> on-line 
> publication and a publishing company?  There are numerous 
> systematic works 
> published in the past decade by "publishers" who are either out of 
> business 
> or never existed except by name on the publication.
> 
> dick p. 
> 
> 
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