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EFFECTIVE PUBLICATION UNDER THE CODE OF BOTANICAL NOMENCLATURE
Author(s) -
Weresub L.K.,
McNeill J.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
taxon
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.819
H-Index - 81
eISSN - 1996-8175
pISSN - 0040-0262
DOI - 10.2307/1220633
Subject(s) - typescript , reproduction , code (set theory) , nomenclature , computer science , subject matter , law , library science , history , political science , biology , ecology , taxonomy (biology) , programming language , set (abstract data type) , curriculum
Summary The problems of defining “printed matter” for the purposes of effective publication under the Code of Botanical Nomenclature are discussed. Modern techniques have blurred the distinction between traditional printing and reproduction from typescript. It is concluded, however, that the precise method of reproduction is less important than the accessibility of the printed matter to the botanical community. The present rules imply that publication is effected by distributing a copy of almost any non‐autographic material to each of only two botanical institutions. Some further restrictions seem desirable and, with increasing use of modern methods of reproduction, a decision on this has become urgent. A proposal is made to restrict effective publication, in future, to established journals and to such other works as explicitly claim to be media for such publication and also indicate that specified minimal distributional requirements have been met. Two further proposals are made: one dealing with an editeral matter and the other establishing a committee to review those problems of effective publication that are not dealt with in the first proposal.