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In 1992, I wrote an article in the followup of the Rio Earth Summit in the Swiss newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung… more

In 1992, I wrote an article in the followup of the Rio Earth Summit in the Swiss newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung... more

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

The wealth of data encapsulated in scientific publications is a well-guarded secret. The recent discussions around Open Access are... more

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

Result of an experiment to test how easy it is to locate the original taxonomic treatments of species mentioned in press releases more

Plazi will utilize a grant from Arcadia to accelerate discovery of known biodiversity by expanding the existing corpus of the Biodiversity Literature Repository more

BHL and Plazi will collaborate to create a workflow from existing literature to liberate digital accessible data to its reuse in GBIF... more

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

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

Plazi and SANBI conducted a training Course in Pretoria in April, 2023, to teach local scientists the access and reuse of scholarly published taxonomic data more

Expanding the biodiversity knowledge graph by linking specimens to their material citations 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

2017 has been a productive year at Plazi... 2018 promises to be an exciting year at Plazi... more

A look back at the past three years more

Plazi-submitted term “materialCitation” has been acceped as a TDWG Darwin Core standard more

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

The Swiss Parliament adopted a new copyright law with a large exception to copyright for the use of protected works for scientific research more

Here we present a small selection of 12 spectacular species that were newly discovered in 2021 with links to their complete taxonomic treatment. more

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

Open Science is based on open data. Data per se is not copyrighted and thus freely accessible. However... more

Plazi has received a grant of EUR 1.1 million from Arcadia – the charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin – to liberate data... more

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

When an 'ex banker' - Tim Robertson - meets an 'ex taxonomist' - Donat Agosti... more

The Thursday November 29, 2018 (doi) issue of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung includes a “Gastkommentar” by me (Donat Agosti)... more

It is now possible to search for images on Ocellus by ecoregions and biomes more

Training course successfully completed more

One of the big challenges in biology - how many species are on planet Earth, where do they live and what do they do - is increasingly relevant... more

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

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... more

When Jérôme Constant published yesterday his taxonomic article on eurybrachid planthopper insects in the European Journal of Taxonomy... more

Happy Birthday Zookeys, and congratulations to Pensoft, its innovator and publisher... more