[Taxacom] ZooBank

[Roderic Page]

The downside of writing a rant is when somebody discovers that you've  
been an edjit. Frank Krell has just told me that he found 22 papers for  
Atta mexicana in Zoological Record, including the paper I made such a  
fuss about.

What gives? Well, turns out my University only has access to ZR for the  
period post 1995, and the paper http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02223555  
dates from 1979. Hence, Frank finds it but I don't.

Now, never one to let an ugly fact get in the way of a good story,  
observe how I turn this embarrassing cock up into yet another stick  
with which to beat the poor folks at ZooBank. So, my access to search  
results (never mind the actual literature) is limited by whatever  
subscription my institution has! Imagine if Google did this, so that  
results from a search while you are in a coffee shop are different from  
those you get at work, or at home. To me, the notion of search results  
varying based on subscription is a recipe for disaster.

Regards

Rod


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