[Taxacom] Publications/Supplementary Material

[David Campbell]

I have encountered supplemental material that did not make the move of the
journal from one publisher to another, though they did a reasonable job of
getting it after I asked.  Also, newly released articles don't always have
the promised supplemental information available.  Many online journal
publishers seem not to realize realize that their citation indices will be
helped by making it easy to find the information needed for a citation,
rather than a confusing assortment of non-final versions, edited but not
yet officially published versions, etc. which may or may not have all the
information included in the pdf.

On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 11:40 AM John Noyes via Taxacom <
taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu> wrote:

> Has anyone else had the same problem as the one spotted by a colleague
> recently? It seems that "Supplementary List" of material examined for a
> revisionary paper published in 2005 has been removed from a publisher's
> website completely. Trying to access the directly from the list from the
> "Supplementary material" section in the revision using the URL provided (
> http://www.blackwellpublishing.com:80/products/journals/suppmat/SEN/SEN271/SEN271sm.htm)
> in the PDF or HTML "Full text" versions of the paper results in an error
> message saying that the Supplementary Material has been removed. There is
> no other link to the list provided. Luckily I downloaded the Supplementary
> Material when it was available and added it to the PDF of the article in
> question, but how often is this type of supplementary information lost for
> good? It may prove to be extremely useful in the future.
>
> Why do publishers not make relevant Supplementary Material  available
> automatically with PDF's of articles in any case. It would not increase
> costs and would make it so much more convenient when downloading PDFs. It
> may also  prevent confusion over whether or not nomenclatural acts are ICZN
> compliant or non-compliant in the future.
>
> Just a thought.
>
> John
>
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Dr. David Campbell
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