Plazi submitted a new term “materialCitation” for dicussion for an eventual inclusion in the TDWG Darwin Core standard... more

The launch of the new feedback button in GBIF reflects the commitment by GBIF and Plazi to care about the data... more

Managing collaborations involving multiple locations, time zones and complementing operations is challenging... more

Three months ago we started with Pensoft an effort (see also press release) to contribute to a better understanding of the SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2) aka corona virus that led to the global... more

A milestone in the development of modern biology was the introduction of the standardization resulting from comparative and... more

On the 1st of April, 2020, a new copyright law was enacted in Switzerland. Amongst other revision points, it declares an extension of the protection of... more

The COVID-19 pandemic presumably started with the escape of the Coronavirus from its bat host to humans... more

Following discussions on Taxacom list server on the value on Open Science, here some points to consider... more

Taxonomic literature is an almost untapped resource of data covering our scholarly knowledge of biodiversity... more

Am kommenden Montag (21.1.2019) berät die Kommission for Wissenschaft, Bildung und Kultur (WBK) des schweizerischen Ständerates die Revision des... more