Taxacom: old journals

[Michael Wilson]

Some Journals are available for a greater timespan if the publisher (or
Society) is generous enough to allow them to be scanned.

I really object to being invited to pay $30 to access a pdf of a paper
published some 40 or more years ago!

Best wishes

Mike Wilson
Nat Mus Wales

On Mon, Nov 28, 2022 at 4:37 PM David Redei via Taxacom <
taxacom at lists.ku.edu> wrote:

>  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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