[Taxacom] two names online published - one new species

Thu Jan 21 16:24:41 CST 2016

Frank, I'm not denying that mistakes and manipulations do happen, just not in this case. The present case is simply a final proof intended for the March 2016 print issue being made available online in advance of print. As I said, the IMPORTANT point is that there is no evidence that the print issue is already published, just because we are already seeing an online version of it! If it was a mistake, then seeing it now WOULD BE evidence that the print edition is already published.

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: "Stephen Thorpe" <stephen_thorpe at yahoo.co.nz>, "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, 11:18 AM

 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]

 Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2016 2:28 PM
 To: Hans Henderickx <cavexplorer at gmail.com>;
 Taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu;
 Frank T. Krell <Frank.Krell at dmns.org>
 Cc: taxacom-owner at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
 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
  http://www.dmns.org/science/museum-scientists/frank-krell
  lab page: http://www.dmns.org/krell-lab

  Test your powers of
 observation in The International  Exhibition of Sherlock
 Holmes, open until January 31. And  prepare your palate for
 Chocolate: The Exhibition, opening  February 12.

  The Denver Museum of Nature
 & Science salutes the  citizens of metro Denver for
 helping fund arts, culture and  science through their
 support of the Scientific and Cultural  Facilities District
 (SCFD). 

  -----Original
 Message-----
  From: Taxacom [mailto:taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu]
  On Behalf Of Hans Henderickx

 Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2016 12:13 PM

 To: Taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
  Cc: taxacom-owner at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
  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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