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

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My understanding is that the botanists voted for registration (for a trial 
period) and at the next Congress abandoned registration.


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On Fri, 29 Jul 2011, Neal Evenhuis wrote:

> 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.
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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.
>
>
>
> 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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