[Taxacom] Linking animal names to primary literature

[Lyubomir Penev]

Paul,

Do you have a statistics what is the percentage of the open access
protologues within your impressive collection?

Lyubomir

On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Paul Kirk <p.kirk at cabi.org> wrote:

> OK ... for the fungi, via Index Fungorum (one click from the name page in
> IF) we have 74,638 links to the protologue of which 43459 are to 'new taxa'
> and the remainder are to 'combinations' (sensu ICN; = 'revisions' sensu
> ICZN).
>
> Paul
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu [mailto:
> taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of Francisco Welter-Schultes
> Sent: 02 December 2011 09:57
> To: Roderic Page
> Cc: taxacom
> Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Linking animal names to primary literature
>
> In AnimalBase we have linked some 50,000 names of genera and species to
> the primary sources digitised at BHL, Gallica or in our own digitisation
> project.
>
> http://www.animalbase.uni-goettingen.de
>
> Example:
>
> http://www.animalbase.uni-goettingen.de/zooweb/servlet/AnimalBase/home/speciestaxon?id=1974
>
> I like your idea of integrating the digitised original description in an
> individual viewer. From AnimalBase you need at least 3 clicks more and you
> rely on the other source being online.
>
> Francisco
>
>
> F. Welter-Schultes
> Zoologisches Institut, Berliner Str. 28, D-37073 Goettingen Phone +49 551
> 395536, Fax +49 551 395579 http://www.animalbase.org
>
> > Dear All;,
> >
> > As part of my mantra about linking information together I've started
> > to build a database linking taxonomic names to primary literature
> > (animals only at this point). The goal is to (a) discover how
> > easy/difficult this is, and (b) provide a resource that might be useful.
> >
> > You can view current progress at: http://iphylo.org/~rpage/itaxon/
> >
> > For some background see
> > http://iphylo.blogspot.com/2011/11/mapping-names-to-literature-closing
> > -in.html
> >
> > The aim is to link names to the primary literature that published that
> > name using, for example, DOIs, Handles, ISBNs, or other identifiers.
> > Where the reference is freely available (e.g., in BHL, the French
> > archive Gallica,or in a journal that makes PDFs freely available) the
> > reference is displayed.
> >
> > The interface is a bit crude, but I'd welcome suggestions
> > feedback/suggestions.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Rod
> >
> >
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------------------
> > Roderic Page
> > Professor of Taxonomy
> > Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine
> > College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences Graham Kerr Building
> > University of Glasgow Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK
> >
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