Plazi

Plazi is an association supporting and promoting the development of persistent and openly accessible digital taxonomic literature. To this end Plazi will:

* Maintain a digital taxonomic literature repository to enable archiving of taxonomic treatments.

* Enhance submitted taxonomic treatments by creating taxonx XML versions.

* Participate in the development of new models for publishing taxonomic treatments in order to maximize interoperability with other relevant cyberinfrastructure components (e.g., name servers, biodiversity resources, etc...)

* Advocate and educate about the vital importance of maintaining free and open access to scientific discourse and data.

Plazi News

Plazi General Assembly, Karlsruhe, March 3-7, 2010

Plazi's general assembly will be held at the Staatliches Museum of Naturkunde in Karlsruhe. An emphasis will be on prospective publishing, future trends and reassessing ongoing work.

Plazi at Zukunft des Urheberrechts – Interessenausgleich oder Paradigmenwechsel?

Donat Agosti is representing the science case at 9th annual meeting of the SF-FS Urheberrechtstagung at the Eidgenössisches Institut für Geistiges Eigentum, Bern.

Plazi at the School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Teheran, Iran, January 19, 2010

Donat Agosti presented and invited lecture "The impact of information technology: Prospects in biodiversity research and communication" to initiate the discussions leading to joint projects.

Plazi at the Enhanced Taxonomic Publications meeting, National Libraries of Medicine, Bethesday, MD, January 4-5, 2010