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(180–181) Report of the Special Committee on Electronic Publishing with two proposals to amend the Code

Year: 2004

Type: article

Abstract: The Report of the previous Committee (Zander & Wilson in Taxon 47: 175-177.1998) to the St. Louis Congress examined, among others, the following important questions:1. How can an electronic publication be archived in a form that will remain readable by future hardware and software?2. How can an original version be protected from changes?3. How can each publication be uniquely identified for access purposes?The Report indicated that these questions were being answered by librarians, archivists, and publishers, in concert with computer experts, but the solutions had not yet been widely implemented.Time was needed for those with appropriate expertise to formulate long-term guidelines.The Committee recognized that the pace of biodi-

Source: Taxon

DOI: 10.2307/4135652

Author: Richard H. Zander

Institution: Missouri Botanical Garden

Language: English

Topic: Publishing and Scholarly Communication

Subfield: History and Philosophy of Science

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $2,630

Funders: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Ministry of Education, India