14. March 2018

10 years of Plazi. On expedition to discover the known biodiversity

This is the view of Donat Agosti, cofounder of Plazi.

In 1992, I wrote an article in the followup of the Rio Earth Summit in the Swiss newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung titled “Brauchen wir zu wissen, wie viele Arten es gibt?» Now,...[more]

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13. March 2018

200.000 deposits at the Biodiversity Literature Repository!

The wealth of data encapsulated in scientific publications is a well-guarded secret. The recent discussions around Open Access are centered around open access to the articles, and thus little effort is made to build an index, for...[more]

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07. March 2018

Pensoft and Plazi join forces to expedite building the OpenBiodDiv

Open Science is based on open data. Data per se is not copyrighted and thus freely accessible. However it is kept in well maintained prisons, such as hard disks on a scientist’s desk to large password protected databases to...[more]

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