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

[dipteryx at freeler.nl]

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Van: taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu namens Doug Yanega
Verzonden: wo 29-6-2011 18:50

>> Quoting from the website (third paragraph):
>>
>>    "Printed versions of EJT papers will be distributed to some 
>>     major natural history museums and institutions to comply 
>>     with the rules of the different nomenclatural codes."

> It is remarkable how many people seem to think that the Zoological 
> Code contains a requirement that paper copies be deposited in a 
> library.

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It is not possible to deduce from the quote if these 'publications' 
will be Code compliant (or not), all it says that the intent is to comply 
with the rules of the relevant Code. So it is much too early to start 
criticizing.

As to the wording of the zoological Code, the
"COULD have printed one copy one day, two copies the next day, another 
copy three days later (with a typo fixed), two more copies the 
following day, and so forth,"  is only non-compliant because of the fixing 
of the typo. The requirement is for the work to be simultaneously obtainable, 
not simultaneously produced. A method that produces five copies a day, 
for a week and a half (with a rest over the weekend) can be Code-compliant,
provided the copies are made public (published) simultaneously. What you
cannot do is put them in the mail or sell them off as they are produced,
piecemeal.

As to the fixing of the typo this could also occur when printing them in
a single day, or when using a printing press. So these are two separate 
issues.

Of course, this is not to say that the procedure that EJT announces to 
be pursuing is an example to be followed (it does sound like a grey area),
but there is no reason to assume anything will actually go wrong.

Paul