[Taxacom] Thesis and new species

[Francisco Welter-Schultes]

This is a question that has arisen repeatedly in the past years.

I have inserted a comment to the ICZN-Wiki Art. 8 to improve this in the
next edition of the Code, to clarify that "obtainable on loan" shall be in
the sense of Art. 8.1.2.

Francisco

> A work present in a public library can be "obtained on loan" and is as
> such obtainable.
>
> /Thomas Pape
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
> [mailto:taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of Paul van
> Rijckevorsel
> Sent: 13. november 2013 11:41
> To: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
> Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Thesis and new species
>
> From: "Francisco Welter-Schultes" <fwelter at gwdg.de>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2013 4:08 PM
>
>> "Obtainable" does probably not mean that after having obtained it you
>> must have the legal right to possess it. You can order a copy in a
>> public library, or a public interlibrary loan system, and then obtain
>> and read it, and afterwards return it. The idea behind the Article was
>
>> probably not that people should personally possess something, but that
>
>> people have access to information.
>
> ***
> Not that I have anything against libraries, but this is not right.
> "To obtain = To succeed in gaining possession of as the result of
> planning or endeavor; acquire."
> http://www.thefreedictionary.com/obtain
>
> The library scenario would include print-on-demand books, or things
> existing in very few copies. And that very much is not the intent.
>
> Paul
>
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Francisco Welter-Schultes
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