Taxonomic Papers

ICZN rules specify that the date of digital publication of taxonomic papers is not a valid date. Taxonomic papers are dated by when they are published in paper form. Furthermore, the ICZN requires that paper copies of taxonomic papers must be deposited in at least five libraries around the world.

To comply with these rules, JIS binds the PDFs of all papers published each year and sends them to the following seven libraries:

National Museum of Natural History, Paris
Universitaetsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg, Frankfurt
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Washington DC
Linnean Society of London
Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago
Main Library, University of Arizona
Steenbach Library, University of Wisconsin

Dates for publication of the bound paper versions are:

Volume 1, 2001: 5 February 2002
Volume 2, 2002: 13 March 2003
Volume 3, 2003: 27 May 2004
Volume 4, 2004: 27 May 2005
Volume 5, 2005: 10 January 2006
Volume 6, 2006: 27 January 2007
Volume 7, 2007; 12 March 2008
Volume 8, 2008: 22 January 2009
Volume 9, 2009: 22 December 2009
Volume 10, 2010: 31 December 2010