Plazi and Pensoft launch an initiative to provide access to scholarly published data about Coronavirus hosts
The COVID-19 pandemic presumably started with the escape of the Coronavirus from its bat host to humans...
On the Role of Open Science in Charting Biodiversity
Following discussions on Taxacom list server on the value on Open Science, here some points to consider...
12 new species added to GBIF during the first Plazi training course at the Congresso Brasileiro de Zoologia
Taxonomic literature is an almost untapped resource of data covering our scholarly knowledge of biodiversity...
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...
Training for building and reusing your corpus of mineable taxonomic literature
The taxonomic literature is a rich, high quality, and largely untapped source of biodiversity knowledge. Taxonomy helps us recognize species and map their distributions through text descriptions, images, and records of when and where they have been observed...
Why do we need BLR to store scholarly taxonomic articles?
When Jérôme Constant published yesterday his taxonomic article on eurybrachid planthopper insects in the European Journal of Taxonomy...
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)...
Provenance – another look at taxonomic treatments and names
When an 'ex banker' - Tim Robertson - meets an 'ex taxonomist' - Donat Agosti...
ZooKeys 10th anniversary
Happy Birthday Zookeys, and congratulations to Pensoft, its innovator and publisher...