Biodiversity Heritage Library - ICZN collaboration

We are very pleased to announce the first completed stage of the BHL-ICZN collaborative project to scan and make freely available online all of the published output of the Commission, from 1907 to the present day.

This will eventually include the following publications:

Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, ISSN: 0007-5167, London, vol.1 (1943) - vol.64 (2007).

Opinions rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, London and Washington, 1907-. Continued in: Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 1939-1954.

Copenhagen Decisions on Zoological Nomenclature: additions to, and modifications of, the Règles Internationales de la Nomenclature Zoologique, approved and adopted by the 14th International Congress of Zoology / edited by F. Hemming, &c. London, 1953, 135p.

Smith, J.D.D. Official lists and indexes of names and works in zoology. Supplement 1986-2000. London: International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature on behalf of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, 2001. 136 p.

Mellville, R. & Smith, J.D.D. Official lists and indexes of names and works in zoology. London, ICZN, 1987. 366p.

From August 2007 the first Official Lists and Indexes volume (all names and works up to and including 1985) is available in a variety of downloadable formats, including fully searchable pdf, at:

http://www.archive.org/details/officiallistsind00inte

Please follow the FTP link to choose the format you want to work with.

We thank the Biodiversity Heritage Library:

http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/

and Internet Archive: http://www.archive.org/index.php

for their support in this important project.