Taxacom: old journals

[David Redei]

 As Biodiversity Heritage Library was just mentioned, I take the
opportunity to pick up a related topic I have wanted to ask since ages.

It is apparent that on BHL the vast majority of periodicals are available
up to about the early 1920's only. I always suspected (but I might be in
error, if so please correct me) that this is because the platform started
not much before 2010, and due to copyright reasons they only uploaded the
volumes up to 90 years before the (that-time) present. But I always
expected that as time passes, further volumes and issues will be gradually
uploaded. Now we are well after 2020, so volumes up to the early 1930's
would legally be possible to be made available, still it apparently does
not happen, all titles which over a decade ago were uploaded up to the
early 1920's are still frozen at the very same year, without any subsequent
addition.

Does anyone know what the policy of this project is? Will there be any
addition later, or ten years ago they just uploaded the volumes up to 1920
and only those will be available forever, the project has been finished?

With best regards, David Redei


On Mon, 28 Nov 2022 at 23:09, Peter Uetz via Taxacom <taxacom at lists.ku.edu>
wrote:

>
> 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:
> >
> > Taxacomers,
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > fred.
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> >         Frederick W. Schueler & Aleta Karstad
> > [garbled URLs deleted]
>
>
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