[Taxacom] Publications on Optical Discs

[Alain Dubois]

Dear Colleagues,

The paper below was just published in Bionomina.

Information about publications containing new nomina and nomenclatural acts
made available between 1985 and 2013 on optical discs is seeked. Colleagues
aware of such publications are welcome to contact the LZC about this.

Best wishes,

Alain

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Dubois, A., Aneesh, P. T., Bauer, A. M., Ceríaco, L. M. P., Daniel, G. M.,
Dellapé, P., Engel, M. S., F., Frétey, T., Löbl, I., Lorvelec, O., Marinov,
M., Ohler, A., Schmitt, M., Whittington, A., Young, M. & Aescht, E. (2021)
[8 November] Optical discs in zoological nomenclature: problems and
proposed solution. *Bionomina*, *24*: 1‒8.


*Abstract*

According to the Code currently in force, taxonomic works presenting
nomenclatural novelties
published on optical discs may be nomenclaturally available only if
published between 1985 and
2013, and respecting some conditions allowing their nomenclatural
promulgation. These works will remain accessible to readers only as long as
the technologies allowing to read such discs are available to all, but will
become inaccessible when these technologies become obsolete. In order to
overcome this technology dependence, the Linz Zoocode Committee has decided
to publish facsimiles of these works, both on paper and online. For this to
be possible, a list of these works needs to be built. We are therefore
sending an appeal to the international community to provide information on
all taxonomic works including nomenclatural novelties published so far on
optical discs, whether available or not under the current Code.

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Professeur Émérite Alain Dubois
Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle
Institut Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB) - UMR 7205
Reptiles & Amphibiens
CP 30
25 rue Cuvier
75005 Paris
France

Adresses e-mail: <sapo421 at gmail.com>, <adbionomina at gmail.com>, <
adpeerj at gmail.com>, <adubois at mnhn.fr>

Blogs personnels:
Sur Overblog: <lherbu.com>
Sur Mediapart: <https://blogs.mediapart.fr/alaindubois-0/blog>

President, Linz Zoocode Committee
<zoologos22 at gmail.com>

Chief Editor, Bionomina
<http://www.mapress.com/bionomina>

Nomenclature Editor, Zootaxa
<http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/>

Academic Editor, PeerJ
<https://peerj.com>

Website of the journal Alytes
<https://www.alytes-journal.org>

Website of the journal Dumerilia
<http://dumerilia.wifeo.com>
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