[Taxacom] How good is Zoological Record's harvesting of taxonomic data? [was Latin anyone?]

[Neal Evenhuis]

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Subject: Re: [Taxacom] How good is Zoological Record's harvesting       of      taxonomic data? [was Latin anyone?]

Stephen Thorpe wrote:

> ...I do
> wish, though, that BHL would digitize all the old volumes of ZR, as I do
> not
> have easy access to these, and they are PRIMARY sources for nomenclatural
> acts
> such as type species designations, etc. (a point that is often overlooked)
> ...

Actually they are secondary sources (the original publication being the primary source).
But then you know this, I am sure :)

Regards - Tony

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This is a misconception by many -- thus, the one of the reasons we wrote the following paper ... which I guess has not been read by as many as we had hoped .... :-)

http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2008/f/z01912p044f.pdf

(I can send pdfs to anyone interested -- it speaks to more than just Diptera).

-Neal