This following link
http://antbase.org/ants/publications/varia/Agosti2005a.pdf
Provides access to a lecture I recently presented at the "Biodiversity:
Science and Governance"
(
http://www.recherche.gouv.fr/biodiv2005paris/en/index.htm) meeting in
Paris, January 26 to 28, 2005, covering the issue of copyright and
access to systematics information (systematic = science of the discovery
of new species and their phylogenetic relationship)
The image (Fig.1) shows dramatically what 'non-open access' in our
biodiversity-science does. It is right now a trend, that more and more
of the systematics journals are not open access, but rather the
opposite, and thus have an adverse effect especially on the conservation
of nature.
Donat
Dr. Donat Agosti
Research Associate, American Museum of Natural History and Smithsonian
Institution
Email: agosti_at_amnh.org
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