Re: [Tdwg-guid] [Taxacom] Demise of Phyloinformatics journal
anyone got a red flag ... I need to drive my horseless carriage home shortly ... ;-) -----Original Message----- From: taxacom-bounces@mailman.nhm.ku.edu [mailto:taxacom-bounces@mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of Thomas Lammers Sent: 24 November 2006 14:02 To: Roderic Page Cc: 'Taxacom'; tdwg-guid@mailman.nhm.ku.edu; evoldir@evol.biology.mcmaster.ca; Dennis DeGreve Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Demise of Phyloinformatics journal ----- Original Message ----- From: Roderic Page <r.page@bio.gla.ac.uk>
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...<
Indeed. Particularly for those who think the Codes should permit description of new taxa electronically. This highlights what utter nonsense and folly such a move would be. Chasing after "the latest thing" and "the current trend" is fine for teenyboppers, fashion, and music. As scientists, however, we have an obligation to posterity to eschew such foolishness. Tom Lammers _______________________________________________ Taxacom mailing list Taxacom@mailman.nhm.ku.edu http://mailman.nhm.ku.edu/mailman/listinfo/taxacom
All of Phyloinformatics is still available from the Internet Archive. See http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.Phyloinformatics.org . I tested it out and downloaded one article as a full pdf. Cheers, Anna Anna L. Weitzman, PhD Botanical and Biodiversity Informatics Research National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution 202.633.0846 weitzman@si.edu ________________________________ From: tdwg-guid-bounces@mailman.nhm.ku.edu on behalf of Paul Kirk Sent: Fri 24-Nov-06 9:07 AM To: Thomas Lammers; Roderic Page Cc: Taxacom; tdwg-guid@mailman.nhm.ku.edu; evoldir@evol.biology.mcmaster.ca; Dennis DeGreve Subject: Re: [Tdwg-guid] [Taxacom] Demise of Phyloinformatics journal anyone got a red flag ... I need to drive my horseless carriage home shortly ... ;-) -----Original Message----- From: taxacom-bounces@mailman.nhm.ku.edu [mailto:taxacom-bounces@mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of Thomas Lammers Sent: 24 November 2006 14:02 To: Roderic Page Cc: 'Taxacom'; tdwg-guid@mailman.nhm.ku.edu; evoldir@evol.biology.mcmaster.ca; Dennis DeGreve Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Demise of Phyloinformatics journal ----- Original Message ----- From: Roderic Page <r.page@bio.gla.ac.uk>
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...<
Indeed. Particularly for those who think the Codes should permit description of new taxa electronically. This highlights what utter nonsense and folly such a move would be. Chasing after "the latest thing" and "the current trend" is fine for teenyboppers, fashion, and music. As scientists, however, we have an obligation to posterity to eschew such foolishness. Tom Lammers _______________________________________________ Taxacom mailing list Taxacom@mailman.nhm.ku.edu http://mailman.nhm.ku.edu/mailman/listinfo/taxacom _______________________________________________ TDWG-GUID mailing list TDWG-GUID@mailman.nhm.ku.edu http://mailman.nhm.ku.edu/mailman/listinfo/tdwg-guid
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