[Taxacom] two names online published - one new species
Stephen Thorpe
stephen_thorpe at yahoo.co.nz
Thu Jan 21 18:05:50 CST 2016
Certainly for Zootaxa and also ZooKeys, archiving is specified on the journal record (and is presumably automatically carried over to individual article records):
Zootaxa: http://zoobank.org/References/78F99150-21C2-4639-B359-F3E2302DF0B7
ZooKeys: http://zoobank.org/References/91BD42D4-90F1-4B45-9350-EEF175B1727A
Journals who haven't done this could pose a nasty surprise for authors who diligently preregistered articles!
Stephen
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On Fri, 22/1/16, Doug Yanega <dyanega at ucr.edu> wrote:
Subject: Re: [Taxacom] two names online published - one new species
To: "Stephen Thorpe" <stephen_thorpe at yahoo.co.nz>, taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu, "engel" <msengel at ku.edu>
Cc: deepreef at bishopmuseum.org
Received: Friday, 22 January, 2016, 11:08 AM
On 1/21/16 1:52 PM,
Stephen Thorpe wrote:
> Doug (CC
Rich),
>
> I think we
may have just stumbled upon a huge problem: "the
ZooBank registration state both the name of an electronic
archive intended to preserve the work and ..."
>
> I have always assumed
that the publisher does this, once for each journal?
Certainly Magnolia Press does it for Zootaxa (not
surprisingly, perhaps, since the whole electronic amendment
is arguably optimised for Zootaxa). How many authors think
to worry about the archive when registering articles on
ZooBank? Bugger all! Looking at some random records on
ZooBank, I'm now worried that a large number of them
fail this requirement! I think we need some clarification
here (Rich?)
>
This is
ONLY an issue if the work is digital-only, which therefore
accounts for only a vanishingly tiny
percentage of all ZooBank
registrations.
If I am not mistaken, there is
a field in the ZooBank registration form
where one is supposed to explicitly indicate
the URL of the online
archive, and this
field was evidently left blank in the registration for
the Engel at al. work. This is the
responsibility of whoever enters the
record
into ZooBank, and not some automated process or default that
comes via the publisher, as far as I'm
aware - though possibly the
"master" ZooBank registration for any
given journal might also indicate
where
that journal is archived online (though I see no such
indication
on the entry for Cretaceous
Research at
http://zoobank.org/References/790197BE-9543-4011-97D8-7C758A962FFA).
I
expect Rich can clarify this.
Sincerely,
--
Doug Yanega Dept. of Entomology
Entomology Research Museum
Univ. of California, Riverside, CA 92521-0314
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