Die Datenbank www.ZOBODAT.at als Recherchewerkzeug für biologische und erdwissenschaftliche Forschung

Wikidata and the bibliography of life

“…Whereas other biological disciplines have created substantial bibliographic databases, such as PubMed, and open access repositories for work sponsored by specific funding agencies and charities agencies, such as Europe PubMed Central ( The Europe PMC Consortium, 2015 ), the taxonomic literature mostly lingers in relative obscurity ( Page, 2016a ). There are several projects trying to redress this problem by digitising the taxonomic literature, ranging from global initiatives such as the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) ( Gwinn & Rinaldo, 2009 ) to extensive, regional repositories such as the Zoological-Botanical Database (ZOBODAT) ( Gusenleitner & Malicky, 2017 ). While the bulk of BHL content comprises legacy works that are out of copyright, recently this has been supplemented by an influx of more recent content so that BHL is no longer “legacy only”.…”