[Taxacom] the zoological code and online publications

[Stephen Thorpe]

Are you a teacher of any kind Doug? I ask because you don't seem to grasp what other people are likely to (mis)understand! I suggest that the complexity here is not so much in what IS written, but in what ISN'T written. It hasn't been spelled out that preregistration is required for all nomenclatural acts to be valid, not just new names. Somebody like you or I, who knows the Code reasonably well in its entirety, might see that as "obvious", but I'm not sure that others do? Publishers tend to be in a big rush to get things out and maximise profits, so don't have time to read through every last detail ..
 
Stephen


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From: Doug Yanega <dyanega at ucr.edu>
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On 3/21/14 6:13 PM, Vladimir Blagoderov wrote: 

> Registration rules for e-only
> publications are by far too complicated.
That's simply not true. Here is the entirety of the text involved:
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8.5. *Works issued and distributed electronically.* To be considered 
published, a work issued and distributed electronically must

8.5.1. have been issued after 2011,

8.5.2. state the date of publication in the work itself, and

8.5.3. be registered in the /Official Register of Zoological 
Nomenclature/ (ZooBank) (see Article 78.2.4) and contain evidence in the 
work itself that such registration has occurred.

8.5.3.1. The entry in the /Official Register of Zoological Nomenclature/ 
must give the name and Internet address of an organization other than 
the publisher that is intended to permanently archive the work in a 
manner that preserves the content and layout, and is capable of doing 
so. This information is not required to appear in the work itself.

8.5.3.2. The entry in the /Official Register of Zoological Nomenclature/ 
must give an ISBN for the work or an ISSN for the journal containing the 
work. The number is not required to appear in the work itself.

8.5.3.3. An error in stating the evidence of registration does not make 
a work unavailable, provided that the work can be unambiguously 
associated with a record created in the /Official Register of Zoological 
Nomenclature/ before the work was published.

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That is NOT too complicated.

Sincerely,

-- 
Doug Yanega      Dept. of Entomology      Entomology Research Museum
Univ. of California, Riverside, CA 92521-0314    skype: dyanega
phone: (951) 827-4315 (disclaimer: opinions are mine, not UCR's)
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