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]

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]

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]

Happy New Year 2018!

2017 has been a productive year at Plazi.  

9,601 articles have been processed from 173 different journals resulting in 82,082 taxonomic treatments, 62,958 scientific figures uploaded to the Biodiversity Literature...[more]

Expanded access to images in the Biodiversity Literature Repository

The Biodiversity Literature Repository at Zenodo is holding now over 160,000 figures originally included in scientific publications and is daily updated. Each image is open access. It has a link to the original source – also...[more]

Measuring the impact of digital specimens: persistent identifiers in scientific publications need be uniform

Digitizing specimens and measuring the impact of science is increasingly important in Open Science. ICEDIG and DiSSCo, two large new projects, join iDigBio in digitizing specimens in natural history collections in Europe and the...[more]

Horizon 2020 award to ICEDIG /DiSSCo

(Leif Schulman and Hannu Saarenmaa, University of Helsinki) The project proposal ICEDIG was favourably evaluated by the European Commission. ICEDIG stands for ‘Innovation and Consolidation for large-scale Digitisation of natural...[more]