Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach
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- 1 January 2009
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in BMC Research Notes
- Vol. 2 (1) , 53
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-2-53
Abstract
A large part of our knowledge on the world's species is recorded in the corpus of biodiversity literature with well over hundred million pages, and is represented in natural history collections estimated at 2 – 3 billion specimens. But this body of knowledge is almost entirely in paper-print form and is not directly accessible through the Internet. For the digitization of this literature, new territories have to be chartered in the fields of technical, legal and social issues that presently impede its advance. The taxonomic literature seems especially destined for such a transformation.Keywords
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