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29. November 2018

Schnappschüsse und das Urheberrecht (Snapshots and copyright law)

The Thursday November 29, 2018 (doi) issue of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung includes a “Gastkommentar” by me (Donat Agosti) arguing that the proposed insertion of an article protecting any kind of photographs of three...[more]

22. October 2018

Provenance: another look at taxonomic treatments and names

When an "ex banker" - Tim Robertson - meets an "ex taxonomist" - Donat Agosti - this can be very inspiring, especially when they discover that they share rather unexpectedly more than they ever expected....[more]

04. July 2018

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]

17. June 2018

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]

14. March 2018

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]

13. March 2018

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]

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28. February 2018