Taxacom: old journals

[Peter Uetz]

Maybe not a bad idea to dump journal hardcopies that are freely available in places such as the Biodiversity Heritage Library (the Canadian Journal of Zoology is not!). If not, donate the journal so some library ? maybe they have space.

However, you may want to check the status of your journal in BHL: some of their scans are rather low quality and many of them have rather bad OCR ? so likely many of them have to be re-scanned or re-processed.

If you have spare money, donate some money to BHL or include them in your beneficiary list of  your retirement account or will (which is what I have done).

Peter




> On Nov 27, 2022, at 9:30 PM, Frederick W. Schueler via Taxacom <taxacom at lists.ku.edu> wrote:
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> Taxacomers,
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> Over the years, we've been given long runs of many journals (amounting to a few cubic metres), which we never consult, and there has been a call, among certain members of the household, to send them to paper recycling. Today the Canadian Journal of Zoology dating back to the 1960s were assigned to this doom.
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> I wonder if this is the fate of all such hard copy publications, or if there's some interest in some class of individuals or institutions using them? If there was some hope for them, an inventory could be drawn up.
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> fred.
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>         Frederick W. Schueler & Aleta Karstad
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