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Zookeys 10th anniversary
Happy Birthday Zookeys, and congratulations to Pensoft, its innovator and publisher.
Today’s 10th anniversary of Zookeys is a great day for biodiversity. The discoveries reported in the press release and celebrated in the...[more]
Plazi and BLR receive €1.1 million from Arcadia Fund to open up new biodiversity data
Plazi has received a grant of EUR 1.1 million from Arcadia – the charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin – to liberate data, such as taxonomic treatments and images, trapped in scholarly biodiversity...[more]
10 years of Plazi. On expedition to discover the known biodiversity
This is the view of Donat Agosti, cofounder of Plazi.
In 1992, I wrote an article in the followup of the Rio Earth Summit in the Swiss newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung titled “Brauchen wir zu wissen, wie viele Arten es gibt?» Now,...[more]
200.000 deposits at the Biodiversity Literature Repository!
The wealth of data encapsulated in scientific publications is a well-guarded secret. The recent discussions around Open Access are centered around open access to the articles, and thus little effort is made to build an index, for...[more]
Pensoft and Plazi join forces to expedite building the OpenBiodDiv
Open Science is based on open data. Data per se is not copyrighted and thus freely accessible. However it is kept in well maintained prisons, such as hard disks on a scientist’s desk to large password protected databases to...[more]
Happy New Year 2018!
2017 has been a productive year at Plazi.
9,601 articles have been processed from 173 different journals resulting in 82,082 taxonomic treatments, 62,958 scientific figures uploaded to the Biodiversity Literature...[more]
Events
August 10, 2018. New York Botanical Garden, Mertz Library 11am
Plazi's Donat Agosti will present a lecture on Plazi's journey to discover known biodiversity.
Biodiversity is an intricate part of our daily life, from creating our oxygen, providing our food, lining and cleaning the streets of...[more]
