Illustrations in biodiversity publications and copyright: Call for review

Illustrations are widely and increasingly used in scientific publications and communications. How can they be shared, reused? Our paper submitted to PLoS Biology is an attempt to provide an answer. 

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Twenty years after

Twenty years ago, NASA approached the biodiversity community to explore the possibility to build a research program in NASA that would support biodiversity research. It was a time, where the state of the art have been single...[more]

Shuttleworth Fellowship for Donat Agosti submitted

Donat Agosti submitted on November 1 his Shuttleworth Fellowship with the goal of making scientific data publication through Plazi an integral part of an open knowledge management system. A successful application will help move...[more]

SpeciesTweet: TreatmentBank's new Twitter feed provides daily updates about newly discovered species

Species are being discovered every day.  While only a few ever make the news, these discoveries are critical for understanding our planet and ultimately providing us a full picture of biodiversity. With its new Twitter...[more]

Open access to data on new and known taxa

The discovery of new species is regularly newsworthy, as well as impressive phenomena such as  the huge light trap Stade de France attracting moths reported yesterday. Whilst in the former case - because of a missing...[more]

UEFA EURO 2016 final a challenge to biologists

Yesterday night at the UEFA EURO 2016 final, these pictures have been a hot topic: Not only Ronaldo had a vistor, but the entire stadium (movie) has been full of a particular moth species....[more]

A record of 4751 taxonomic treatments uploaded automatically in one day

A combination of a checklist of British ichneumonoids by Broad in the Biodiversity Data Journal and a nomenclator of melanopsids by Neubauer in Zookeys led to a record of 4751 automatically uploaded taxonomic treatments to...[more]