[Taxacom] the zoological code and online publications

[Stephen Thorpe]

The situation is a bit more complicated. Really only Magnolia Press (not surprisingly, perhaps) does e-publication properly all the time. It preregisters all articles on ZooBank, and publishes only final versions with the date of publication clearly stated in the articles themselves. Other publishers make lots of mistakes, like thinking only articles with new taxa need ZooBank pregistration, thereby forgetting about lectotype designations, first-reviser actions, and other nomenclatural acts. The level of chaos has increased following e-only publication.
 
Stephen


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http://blogs.biomedcentral.com/bmcblog/2014/03/17/the-zoological-code-and-online-publication/

"The International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) has published a response<http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2014/f/zt03779p005.pdf> to Dubois et al.<http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3735.1.1> who have criticised the way online journals have interpreted the zoological Code<http://www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted-sites/iczn/code/> (the rules you should adhere to if you want to publish zoological species names correctly). BioMed Central's response is also published<http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2014/f/zt03779p008.pdf>, which expands some of the points we made earlier<http://blogs.biomedcentral.com/bmcblog/2013/11/15/>. Nature also commented here<http://www.nature.com/news/the-new-zoo-1.14200>. Thanks to the 2012 Amendment<http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.219.3944> to the Code, things have moved on and online journals are now 'available' for nomenclature provided the species is registered in ZooBank<http://zoobank.org/> and certain
 conditions<http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2012/f/z03450p008f.pdf> are met. The crux of the problem seems to be a misinterpretation of the Code for works published after 1999 and before 2012."

(...)

"BioMed Central wants to reassure authors who have entrusted their manuscripts to us that in the majority of cases pre-2012, paper copies were distributed and the rules adhered to. For cases where it is not clear if a paper version was issued prior to the 2012 Amendment or cannot be found, we will apply to the Commission and request they use their Plenary Power to make available previously published 'unavailable' names. If only names were available from the electronic version of record!"

Donat

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