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Volume 72 (3)

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Electronic publications need registration in ZooBank to be available

Frank-Thorsten Krell, Thomas Pape, “Electronic publications need registration in ZooBank to be available”, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, vol. 72, no. 3, pp. 245-251, 2015.

The 2012 Amendment to the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature allows electronic publication for nomenclatural purposes if certain requirements are fulfilled. We here explain these simple requirements, including what needs to be registered in ZooBank and when, which version of an electronic work is potentially Code-compliant (only the final, immutable version), and....

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Nomenclatural availability of preliminary electronic versions of taxonomic papers: in need of a clear definition

Alain Dubois, Roger Bour, Annemarie Ohler, “Nomenclatural availability of preliminary electronic versions of taxonomic papers: in need of a clear definition”, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, vol. 72, no. 3, pp. 252-265, 2015.

The question of the nomenclatural availability of preliminary electronic versions of taxonomic papers, distributed online ‘ahead of print’ by some journals and publishing companies, is addressed again. We disagree with Krell’s suggestion to ‘distinguish between content and bibliographical metadata’. The concept of ‘bibliographical metadata’ does not exist in the Code and should....

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