3. ZooBank will check the submitted
details automatically, and the author will receive a response stating
whether or not the name or act meets the provisions of the Code,
and if a proposed name is a junior homonym. The author will be
provided with a unique identifier (reference code: e.g. DOI/GUID/LSID)
for each name or nomenclatural act. This identifier will be deposited
in ZooBank but inaccessible to the general public until completion
of the registration procedure. The identifier will be published
in the subsequent paper.
4. After publication, and if available,
the author will upload a facsimile file (currently pdf), or submit
a reprint or good quality photocopy to the Commission Secretariat,
for verification and archiving. Alternatively, the author can provide
the registration details by post on a form downloadable from the
ICZN website or available from the ICZN Secretariat. These electronic
documents, although not mandatory, will become an integral part
of ZooBank, and authors, editors and publishers will be strongly
encouraged to supply them during the registration process. Copyright
issues will need to be negotiated between publishers and ICZN.
5 . When the Commission Secretariat has received a copy of the
original description or published nomenclatural act, this will
be cross-checked with the registration form, checked for Code-compliance,
and finally registered. In cases of non Code-compliance, the Commission
will contact the author and withhold the registration process until
a correction is published.
6. At the point of registration
with ZooBank the submitting author will receive confirmation and
details of the registration by e-mail or post. The name is now
registered and available.
7. Copyright issues allowing,
the complete original description will be linked to the registered
name in the database immediately, and a paper copy archived in
the archive of the Commission.
The proposed registration procedure
described above has a number of parallels with the current system
for deposition of gene sequence data with GenBank (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Genbank/index.html).
Changes to the ICZN for
Establishing Registration as Publication
A somewhat more ambitious revision to the ICZN Code, which would
both require registration for new names and nomenclatural acts,
and simultaneously establish the act of registration as an alternative
to, but running concurrently with, current publication requirements,
could be implemented in the next (5th) Edition of the Code. Such
a scenario would require at least the following changes to the
current Code:
Change to Article
8.3. Replace “see Article 8.7.1” by: “see
Article 8.8.1”.
Change to Article
8.5. Add “it” to the end of the sentence
Change to Article
8.5.1. Remove “it” from the beginning of
the sentence
Add Article 8.5.2. is
published on durable media, and
Change to Article
8.5.2. Replace “8.5.2” with “8.5.3”.
Change to Article
8.5.3. Replace “8.5.3” with “8.5.4”.
Change to Article
8.6. Add “and before 2008”
to the first sentence, after “produced after 1999”. Replace “For
a work produced after 1999” in the second sentence
with “For a work produced between 1999 and 2008”.
Add Article 8.7. Names
and nomenclatural acts after 2007. All new names and
nomenclatural acts proposed after 2007 must be properly registered
with the official ICZN registry of zoological nomenclature [Article
17]. All such registrations entered after 2007 shall themselves
constitute the equivalent of a “published work” as
defined in this Chapter, and referenced elsewhere throughout
this Code.
