Zoological Record
TM & ZooBank:
a partnership for success
Nigel RobinsonDirector, Operations & DevelopmentThomson Zoological Limited
Association with the communityAssociation 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
Zoological RecordZoological 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
Zoological Record contentZoological 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 reference in journal where description appears
• 1.7 million article archive to 1978…….and growing
• Monthly updates
The ZR/ZooBank partnershipThe ZR/ZooBank partnership
• Partnership• Experience in working with non profit organizations
• Technology
• Ongoing data capture & quality checking• Most up to date – items indexed in 2-11 days of receipt
• Most complete
• Existing names back file• Archive digitization
• Commitment to open access services• BiologyBrowser (www.biologybrowser.com)
• Index to Organism Names (www.organismnames.com)
Index to Organism NamesIndex to Organism Names
Enter a basic or advanced search
Browse and search for names using the taxonomic hierarchy
Index to organism Names - DetailsIndex to organism Names - Details
View results list and expand to see details
Links to indexing and full articles
Recent articles and web sites
Zoological Record Indexing Zoological Record Indexing
Abstract
Indexing & additional nomenclatural acts
Links to full text
Index to Organism Names - submissionIndex to Organism Names - submission
Users can submit publications or names for inclusion in ZR
Index to Organism Names - AlertsIndex to Organism Names - Alerts
RSS alerts for new names classified to each term
the hierarchy
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