ZR

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Zoological Record TM ZooBank a partnership
for success
Nigel Robinson Director, Operations
Development Thomson Zoological Limited
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Association with the community

• 1864 Scientists associated with British Museum
  Zoological Society
• 1880-1980 Zoological Society support
• 1980-2003 Zoological Society/BIOSIS partnership
• 2003 BIOSIS
• 2004 Thomson Scientific
• Zoological Record data capture
• Index to Organism Names project

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Zoological Record

• Oldest continuing life science reference database
• Comprehensive coverage
• Unparalleled breadth and depth of coverage of
  biodiversity, zoology and animal biology
• Authoritative record of taxonomy nomenclature
• New names with metadata
• Taxonomic nomenclatural acts
• High archival value

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Zoological Record content

• 32 staff in York
• 5000 journals, plus conference proceedings,
  books, monographs from 100 countries bring
  together disparate sources
• 72,000 items per year
• Gather 20,000 new names per year
• Metadata currently gathered
• Name
• Authorship
• Reference
• Type locality (country level)
• Type horizon
• Type host
• Page in journal where description appears
• 1.7 million article archive to 1978.and growing
• Monthly updates

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Zoological Record and Thomson

• Durable ZR is still here 150 years on
• Most up to date
• Items indexed in 2-11 days of receipt
• Most complete
• Involved in the taxonomic / biodiversity
  community
• Financially stable future
• Backed by the resources of the Thomson
  Corporation
• Archive digitization
• BiologyBrowser
• Index to Organism Names

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The ZR/ZooBank partnership

• Partnership
• Stability longevity
• Technology
• Data and links open access
• Agreements with publishers and libraries
• Obtaining material to index
• Providing links to full text of the
  article/description
• Ongoing data capture quality checking
• Existing names back file
• A free, open access service for the community

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Index to Organism Names (ION)

• Under redevelopment for imminent release
• gt1.5 million names from ZR 1970-present
• Plus names from BIOSIS Previews Biological
  Abstracts
• Links to Web information, Zoological Record
  (Biology, Taxonomic history, Full text article,
  Power of the Web of Knowledge)
• Alerts to new names for specific groups
• Purpose and uses
• Homonym checking use of name in the published
  literature
• Identify the taxonomic group to which an organism
  belongs
• Verify that newly published animal names have
  been correctly reported in Zoological Record, as
  recommended by the Code, and submit omissions
• Obtain literature references about a name
• View latest research carried out on a name
  through the recent articles list
• Access full text and gain access to the full
  literature record of a given name
• www.organismnames.com

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Index to Organism Names
Enter a basic or advanced search
Browse and search for names using the taxonomic
hierarchy
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Index to organism Names - Details
Recent articles and web sites
Links to indexing and full articles
View results list and expand to see details
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Zoological Record Indexing
Abstract
Links to full text
Indexing additional nomenclatural acts
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Index to Organism Names - submission
Users can submit publications or names for
inclusion in ZR
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Index to Organism Names - Alerts
RSS alerts for new names classified to each term
the hierarchy
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Questions???
Nigel Robinson nigel.robinson_at_thomson.com