A suggested Swiss science contribution to the future of Open Science and biodiversity

At today's swissuniversities kick-off meeting of the new Open Science strategy, we have been given a chance to present Plazi's input to build the Swiss Open Science vision.

This is what Donat Agosti has to say:

"Thank you...[more]

New Copyright Law in Switzerland Empowers Scientific Research

The Swiss Parliament adopted a new copyright law on 27 September, 2019. Amongst its many new elements, there is a large exception to copyright for the use of protected works for scientific research purposes (Art. 24d1). This...[more]

Open Science: A lot of work ahead

In our liberation effort, I came across this recent article (doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4624.1.12 ) with the very promising title “Spreadsheets to expedite taxonomic publications by automatic generation of morphological descriptions...[more]

Reuse of person names on specimen labels, in scholarly publications, and Data Protection (GDPR)

Data mobilization from specimen labels in natural history collections and liberation of materials citation from scholarly publications provide a new rapidly growing source of data ready to be analyzed and reused. Authority names,...[more]

Congratulation for the 500th EJT issue!

The European Journal of Taxonomy just published its 500th issue. This in itself is another achievement in the 220 years history of its publisher, the Publications Scientifiques Du Muséum Nationale d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, but...[more]

Der geplante Lichtbildschutz Artikel (Art 2 Abs. 3bis) behindert Forschung und IT-Industrie

Am kommenden Montag (21.1.2019)  berät die Kommission for Wissenschaft, Bildung und Kultur (WBK) des schweizerischen Ständerates die Revision des Urheberrechtsgesetzes. Nach dem jetzigen Revisionsentwurf sollen in Zukunft...[more]

March 14, 2018 10th anniversary of Plazi

October 17, 2019. Swiss Open Science Action Plan Kick-Off Forum, Lausanne, Switzerland

Plazi will present its vision as contribution to the discussion on the future Swiss open science at the swissuniversities Kick-Off Forum in Lausanne, October 17, 2:00 pm - 5:30pm.

The open science working group initiated by...[more]

October 21-25, 2019. biodiversity_next, Leiden, NL

Plazi will be attending the biodiversity_next meeting in Leiden. You can meet us at the following events

Thu, 13:30-15:00 ST13 Enhancing taxonomic publications for dynamic data exchange and navigation

* The European Journal of...[more]