[Taxacom] two names online published - one new species

Thu Jan 21 16:18:48 CST 2016

A mistake? Many publishers publish their products deliberately with false publication dates. CRC publishes all books from June or July with the date of the following year. Many publishers do the same.
Taylor and Francis had published their December and January issues of J. Nat. Hist. in summer of the previous year once (when I was still in London, so probably a decade ago). If you approach the end of a year, November or December, many journals are published with the date of the following year. I published about this a few years ago: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/266618323_Academic_publishers'_time-loop_Another_mechanism_to_manipulate_impact_factors

It is all but annoying that publishers are not transparent and even manipulative about their publication dates. In Engel's case, the journal issue is the issue assigned to March 2016. This is the March issue, but this does not mean that it is published in March. It just looks like published in March (because it is the March issue). An old issue that is no longer justifiable in times of digital printing and online publication but it is ongoing.

Frank

Dr Frank T. Krell
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Commissioner, International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature
Chair, ICZN ZooBank Committee
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----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Thorpe [mailto:stephen_thorpe at yahoo.co.nz] 
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Subject: Re: [Taxacom] two names online published - one new species

Frank,

Surely the "March 2016" is not a mistake? The article will be published in the March 2016 print edition, the (presumably) final proofs of which are online in advance of print. The important point here is that there is NO EVIDENCE that the print version is published now, so the names remain unavailable until the print version is published (presumably in March 2016, or perhaps even later).

Cheers,

Stephen

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On Fri, 22/1/16, Frank T. Krell <Frank.Krell at dmns.org> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [Taxacom] two names online published - one new species
 To: "Hans Henderickx" <cavexplorer at gmail.com>, "Taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu" <Taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>
 Cc: "taxacom-owner at mailman.nhm.ku.edu" <taxacom-owner at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>
 Received: Friday, 22 January, 2016, 10:13 AM

 Hi Hans,
 Elsevier allows their online pre-publications (Articles in
 press) to be altered. Therefore they cannot be considered  available for nomenclatural purposes, see https://www.researchgate.net/publication/274372707_A_mixed_bag_when_are_early_online_publications_available_for_nomenclatural_purposes
 I see no evidence for registration in ZooBank in the Engel  paper anyway, so it is available from the paper version. The  paper version, according to Elsevier's webpage of the paper,  was published in March 2016. Hmm. I guess Elsevier hasn't  looked at the calendar. Elsevier's practices are pretty  annoying for somebody who cares about priority. So, we have  evidence now that this paper in its final form is published  on 21 January 2016 (if the paper version is out). If anybody  has seen the final version (version of record, the version  integrated in a journal issue and printed on paper) earlier,  then we have evidence for an earlier publication date.

 Wiley's Early View papers are Code-compliant. It has the  publication date 4 Jan 2016. Well, going with a  Code-compliant publisher has advantages. Wiley also claims  that the issue published in January is the January issue.
 Isn't that something!

 I agree with others' comments that the Pohl name is  available and has priority (unless we find that the print  version of the Engal paper appeared before 4 January 2016.

 Btw, I don't find Dubois's standpoint particularly helpful  or realistic in the current publication landscape. 

 Frank

 Dr Frank T. Krell
 Curator of Entomology
 Commissioner, International Commission on Zoological  Nomenclature  Chair, ICZN ZooBank Committee  Department of Zoology  Denver Museum of Nature & Science
 2001 Colorado Boulevard
 Denver, CO 80205-5798 USA
 Frank.Krell at dmns.org

 Phone: (+1) (303) 370-8244
 Fax: (+1) (303) 331-6492
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 lab page: http://www.dmns.org/krell-lab

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 -----Original Message-----
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 Subject: [Taxacom] two names online published - one new  species

 The following two publications were almost simultanously  published in  January 2016 concerning the same fossil  species but based on two different  specimens from  Burmese amber (Strepsiptera).
  The publication of Engel was already available online 13  November 2015  (noted in the publicaton:
 www.elsevier.com/locate/CretRes), but it's reference in the  publication (for the printed version I suppose) says 2016. 
  The Pohl publication was also registered in ZOOBANK

 *  Engel, M. et al. (2016) A new twisted-wing  parasitoid from mid-Cretaceous  amber of Myanmar  (Strepsiptera). Cretaceous Research
  ((http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2015.10.008)

  -and-

 *  Pohl, H. (2016) Kinzelbachilla ellenbergeri - a new  ancestral  species, genus and family of Strepsiptera
 (Insecta)(DOI: 10.1111/syen.12158)
  http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid: 
  zoobank.org:pub:07554C01-DEC3-4080-A337-B1F46BC9070F

  Wich publication has priority here, and wich name is valid?
 Engel's publication was online published and registered by  Elsevier two months earlyer (2015), so the name proposed in  this publication Phthanoxenos nervosus looks to have  priority rights. 

 However, according the ICZN about online publishing the  names in an online publication are only 'legally' registered  after registration in ZooBank.
 See http://iczn.org/node/40562 . Until than the publication  should be considered as 'non valid' and the names as  'unavailable'
 see:
 http://iczn.org/content/electronic-publication-made-available-amendment-code

 http://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=3096

 In that case, taken in consideration the ZooBank  instruction, only Pohl's publication is legally valid, with  another species name in this case: Kinzelbachilla  ellenbergeri. However, Elsevier has registered Engel's  publication  http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2015.10.008. before
 (2015) and ZooBanks' profile as 'monopoly concerning  registrations' could be considered as illegal concurrence.
 Space for discussion here it looks to me, I am interested in  the opinion of the list members.

  Hans Henderickx
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