Taxacom: mdpi soliciting

[Fred Schueler]

On 1/29/2025 1:34 PM, Douglas Yanega via Taxacom wrote:
> On 1/29/25 10:21 AM, Fred Schueler via Taxacom wrote:
>> With the internet, I don't see why any study couldn't be posted in a 
>> blog by its authors, both as straight text and as a pdf, and reviews 
>> solicited from both known colleagues and via mailing lists. The 
>> reviews would be entered as comments on the blog, and then the ms 
>> revised in accordance with them, and then reposted as published.
> 
> For any study that involves nomenclatural acts, such self-produced 
> publications run an incredibly high risk of failing to comply with the 
> ICZN's requirements for publication. As it is, a number of digital-only 
> journals do not comply with ICZN rules, and new names published in these 
> journals are routinely unavailable. Authors of new taxa need to exercise 
> extreme caution when choosing any publication venue that does not 
> produce a print version.

* yes, I didn't include that caution - but once a few serious 
taxonomists began to use this kind of procedure, there'd be protocols 
worked out to instruct new authors on how to be code-compliant.

fred.
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