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

[Stephen Thorpe]

better wimps than lemmings!! :)




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From: Jim Croft <jim.croft at gmail.com>
To: Stephen Thorpe <stephen_thorpe at yahoo.co.nz>
Cc: TAXACOM at mailman.nhm.ku.edu; Donat Agosti <agosti at amnh.org>
Sent: Sat, 30 July, 2011 8:10:21 PM
Subject: Re: [Taxacom] e-publishing in botany also formally accepted at IBC.


wimps... :)
On Jul 30, 2011 12:31 PM, "Stephen Thorpe" <stephen_thorpe at yahoo.co.nz> wrote:
> 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>
> To: 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.
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> Below the language.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Donat
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