[Taxacom] e-publishing in botany also formally accepted at IBC.

[Stephen Thorpe]

>If the botanists can do it - isn't that proof enough that it is OK?

but they haven't done it yet, they have just agreed to start doing it ...

chaos could easily result if they haven't foreseen all possible complications 
(like edit in progress early view manuscripts being made available by some 
publishers to push up citation rates, etc.)

anyway, someone I know reckons that the ICZN vote has to wait for a fully 
functional ZooBank, and this is kind of happening, but the final result remains 
to be seen ...

Stephen




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From: Neal Evenhuis <neale at bishopmuseum.org>
To: Stephen Thorpe <stephen_thorpe at yahoo.co.nz>; Donat Agosti <agosti at amnh.org>; 
taxacom <TAXACOM at MAILMAN.NHM.KU.EDU>
Sent: Sat, 30 July, 2011 2:53:19 PM
Subject: Re: [Taxacom] e-publishing in botany also formally accepted at IBC.

What? Caution? Why be prudent? If the botanists can do it - isn't that proof 
enough that it is OK?

In actuality, if the ICZN votes "yes" on the amendment proposal, the botanists 
will be watching US since the ICZN amendment doesn't have to wait for a new Code 
and can be enacted right after the vote. I'm pretty sure the botanists have to 
wait for a new ICBN book to come out first ....

-Neal

On 7/29/11 4:30 PM, "Stephen Thorpe" 
<stephen_thorpe at yahoo.co.nz<mailto:stephen_thorpe at yahoo.co.nz>> scribbled the 
following tidbit:

it would be prudent for the zoological community to wait a little while until it
becomes clear if there are any problems emerging from the change in botany...




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From: Donat Agosti <agosti at amnh.org<mailto:agosti at amnh.org>>
To: TAXACOM at MAILMAN.NHM.KU.EDU<mailto:TAXACOM at MAILMAN.NHM.KU.EDU>
Sent: Sat, 30 July, 2011 2:11:53 PM
Subject: [Taxacom] e-publishing in botany also formally accepted at IBC.

The Resolution 5 concerning decisions made at the Nomenclature Section has
been accepted with a huge majority and with that the regulation regarding
e-publications and others and thus will come in effect.

There was an intervention that multiple formats should be used for
publishing, not just pdf.



Below the language.



Resolution 5

The XVIII International Botanical Congress, in Melbourne, Australia,
resolves that the decisions of its Nomenclature  Section with respect to the
International Code of Botanical Nomenclature (now to be the International
Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants), noting with interest
that specified types of electronic publication are now effective for
nomenclature purposes, that descriptions of new taxa may now appear in
English or Latin, that, for valid publications, new names of fungi must
include citation of an identifier issued by a recognized repository that
will register the name, and that the Code will henceforth provide for a
single name for all fungi and for all fossils falling under its provisions,
as well as the appointment of a officers and members of the nomenclature
committees, made by the section during its meetings on 18-22 July, be
accepted.



With that the move into the e-publishing age is made by the botanists. It
will be interesting to see, how the zoological community is going to react.



Donat



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