[Taxacom] Finding your species in Mendeley

[Geoff Read]

Rod mentioned WoRMS earlier. Just to point out that in WoRMS,
www.marinespecies.org, one can already get the list of marine species
authored by anyone by a taxon search using the Authority option. For
example 'd'Orbigny' yields links to 412 marine species names (d'Orbigny is
unlikely to be setting up a Mendeley account any time soon, so this is
handy). Name disambiguation is possible at least by taxon group, and by
date of publication (eg., easy to find that d'Orbigny published at least
179 species in the 1830s, from which a further 106 recombinations exist).

WoRMS has a way to go with achieving literature mapping and the important
facility to quickly open the original publication, supplying the link for
which for new entries may be viewed as optional by some editors (not me),
but it has a good literature list with mostly full rather than micro
citations. There may already be an automatic link to the BHL mentions of
the older species.

Geoff

On Tue, December 6, 2011 5:28 am, Roderic Page wrote:
> Following on from my earlier message about Mendeley (and thanks to those
> who responded) here's a blog post explaining why I asked the question, and
> how you can use your Mendeley account to find species you've described in
> my taxonomic name -> literature mapping project:
>
> http://iphylo.blogspot.com/2011/12/these-are-my-species-finding-taxonomic.html