[Taxacom] print on demand publishers -ICZN implications

[Doug Yanega]

>If a work is not available due to not being properly published, e.g.
>many dissertations, some 19th-century catalogs, etc., but someone
>prints copies from a scanned version, is there anything that prevents
>that from constituting publication?

Goodness, yes!

Article 9.7 prohibits "copies obtained on demand of an unpublished 
work, even if previously deposited in a library or other archive"

This is NOT a concern.

Peace,
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Doug Yanega        Dept. of Entomology         Entomology Research Museum
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