Dear all,
some months ago we discussed about the demise of the phyloinformatics journal and the topics persitance and of course trustworthiness of identifiers. I thought the following link might be of interest in this context. Its about certifying the trustworthiness of digital archives, very interesting..
best regards, Robert
-----Ursprungliche Nachricht----- Von: tdwg-guid-bounces@mailman.nhm.ku.edu [mailto:tdwg-guid-bounces@mailman.nhm.ku.edu]Im Auftrag von Roderic Page Gesendet: Freitag, 24. November 2006 14:37 An: 'Taxacom'; evoldir@evol.biology.mcmaster.ca; tdwg-guid@mailman.nhm.ku.edu Cc: Dennis DeGreve Betreff: [Tdwg-guid] Demise of Phyloinformatics journal
The Open Access web-only journal "Phyloinformatics" seems to have disappeared, with the Internet address http://www.phyloinformatics.org now up for sale. This means the articles have just disappeared!
There weren't many papers published, but some were interesting and have been cited in the mainstream literature.
This also illustrates the problems with linking to digital resources using URLs, as opposed to identifiers such as DOIs. With the loss of the domain name, this journal has effectively died.
A sobering lesson...
Regards
Rod
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