[Taxacom] A lost world in Wallacea

[John Noyes]

Hi,

Hmmm . . Is this a possible way of publishing large taxonomic revisions without having to pay a huge amount in page charges? On the face of it the supplementary material section attached to the "published" part of this article does look to be Code compliant. 

However, there may be a few "flies in the ointment" - 1. Is  there an entry in ZooBank that states directly that the taxonomic supplement (e-only) is archived and state where it is archived or does it rely on an assumption that the Supplementary Material is archived along with the main part of the journal; 2. Does the Supplement Material have a separate ISSN number from the main part of the journal ( or do we assume that it has the same ISSN number as the journal itself)?

Is there an official declaration by the ICZN on the availability of nomenclatural acts published in e-only Supplementary Materials? I have always assumed that nomenclatural acts published in Supplementary  Materials sections are not available because they do not normally comply with the code, but this example appears to do so.

John

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Dear all,

Has anyone examined if the taxonomy in the 'Science' new Indonesian birds
article, with respect to only being in the author supplement, is code
complaint?  This practice is highly unsatisfactory in my opinion, & as
usually badly formatted it is awful to read & use, but it must be that
there is no firepower under the code to prevent it, since journals
repeatedly do it. Yes?  No?

https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fscience.sciencemag.org%2Fcontent%2F367%2F6474%2F167&data=02%7C01%7Cj.noyes%40nhm.ac.uk%7Cd86f4d86c36e4afa329c08d79b15a83d%7C73a29c014e78437fa0d4c8553e1960c1%7C1%7C0%7C637148389627696589&sdata=Tw8ZulPA4IHm%2FwS%2FP6XB4GwHw%2BGLQnM0LrcZrqs%2FtWI%3D&reserved=0

Frank Krell once wrote an article in BZN in which he firmly stated
"Electronic supplements are to be considered unavailable for the purposes
of zoological nomenclature."  Is this incorrect? Surely there are
qualifications needed for that statement?

If high-profile e-journals want to keep dirty boring taxonomy from
contaminating the purity of the sparkling article text they could put it
in an appendix that was in the same pdf, i.e. in the article in a separate
last section. It would be fully code complaint. If the journal is also
print then the taxonomy could be left out of the print version. Why the
downgrading to separate pdfs in the e-version?

Geoff

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Geoffrey B. Read, Ph.D.
Wellington, NEW ZEALAND
gread at actrix.gen.nz

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