Our Shiny Digital Future posts plus other bloggers’ thoughts, various comments and emails, eventually gave birth to a coherent (I hope!) stream of thought exhorting the ICZN to make a move on electronic publications while there is still time.
The paper
- Taylor, Michael P. 2009. Electronic publication of nomenclatural acts is inevitable, and will be accepted by the taxonomic community with or without the endorsement of the Code. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 66(3):205-214.


July 6, 2011 at 11:46 am
[...] end with some discussion. By contrast, there were lots of different ways I could have structured my plea to the ICZN to recognise electronic publication (Taylor 2009b), but I went for an approach where the section headings outlined the core argument [...]