[Taxacom] EJT, European journal for taxonomy : call for papers

[Dr Brian Taylor]

Well Adam,

Yep!  And how long have we been waiting for the "voluntary" ICZN - who
appointed/elected the Commissioners - to fall off the fence?  Two years or
so ago opinions were sought and given.  Some might think forget about them,
the ICZN that is.  All publications, electronic or paper, are covered by
copyright and so plagiarism is illegal.  Even the ostriches know that.

If people get into the habit of citing electronic sources and those sources
are archived, e.g. as with the British Library initiative
http://www.webarchive.org.uk/ukwa/
the "validity" will solve itself.  Remember taxonomy has a self-correcting
process, otherwise known as synonymy, where necessary.  The criterion of
much of science, e.g. replication of results by repetition of the
experiment, cannot apply.

Brian Taylor

On 29/06/2011 15:40, "Adam Cotton" <adamcot at cscoms.com> wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "JOCQUE Rudy" <rudy.jocque at africamuseum.be>
> To: "TAXACOM" <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2011 6:00 PM
> Subject: [Taxacom] EJT, European journal for taxonomy : call for papers
> 
> Call for papers
> 
> European Journal of Taxonomy (EJT)
> 
> * *http://Web-ejt.nhm.ac.uk/index.php/ejt
> <http://web-ejt.nhm.ac.uk/index.php/ejt>
> 
> *What*?
> 
> The EJT Consortium, consisting of European natural history museums and
> botanical gardens, is proud to present the *European Journal of Taxonomy*!
> 
> EJT is an international, fully electronic, Open Access journal for
> descriptive taxonomy, in *zoology, entomology, botany, and palaeontology*.
> Publishing in EJT is free (*there are no page charges*) and access is free
> as well (*there are no subscription charges*). So neither authors, nor
> readers have to pay!
> 
> EJT-papers must be original and of a high standard both in scientific
> content and technical execution (language, art work,..). The scope of EJT is
> *global*; neither authorship nor the geographical region of study is
> restricted to Europe.
> 
> EJT publishes taxonomic contributions and revisions, monographs and opinion
> papers. Less comprehensive taxonomic papers (e.g. those dealing with a few
> species of a taxon) will be accepted for review provided their wider context
> and impact is both high and explained clearly.
> 
> EJT follows Creative Commons Copyright, so authors retain the *copyright* of
> their papers.
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
> So any Zoological nomenclatorial changes, new taxa etc are not valid under
> the ICZN Code since the publication is completely electronic without any
> paper copies. Even Zootaxa has a paper version to make it Code compliant.
> Apart from that little issue the project is highly commendable, and I wish
> it good luck.
> 
> Adam Cotton. 
> 
> 
> 
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