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Since its origin in 1864, ZR has had a close association with the taxonomic community, particularly with the Zoological Society of London. ZR was founded in 1864 by a group of scientists associated with the British Museum. It continued, supported by Society until 1980 when a partner was sought and BIOSIS took over production activities. In 2004, BIOSIS realised that with limited resources we could not achieve our aims and put our ideas into practice without further partnerships, so in January 2004, BIOSIS (including ZR) was acquired by the Thomson Corporation, and the new ownership is now starting to pay dividends. Over that 150 years or so, there have been difficult times, but ZR is still here and still has the same purpose it had in 1864 - to serve the community and disseminate taxonomic, biodiversity and zoological information for the benefit of scientific research. This presentation discusses ZR, and the new free Index to Organism Names service which serves to demonstrate our commitment as Thomson to this initiative. I will also discuss how the partnership between ZR and ICZN might work from the ZR perspective.
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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
