About Plazi

Plazi supports and promotes the development of persistent and openly accessible digital taxonomic literature. To this end Plazi:

  • Maintains a digital taxonomic literature repository to enable archiving of taxonomic treatments.
  • Enhances submitted taxonomic treatments by creating TaxonX and Taxpub XML versions.
  • Participates in the development of new models for publishing taxonomic treatments in order to maximize interoperability with relevant cyberinfrastructure components (e.g., name servers, biodiversity resources, etc…)
  • Advocates and educates about the vital importance of maintaining free and open access to scientific discourse and data

Plazi is a not-for-profit organization based in Bern, Switzerland and was founded on March 13th 2008. The bylaws are available in English and German

Plazi Mission

Plazi is a non-profit organisation founded in 2008 to promote the free accessibility of scientific data, in particular taxonomic treatments and images.

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15 years of discovering known biodiversity

Plazi’s 15th anniversary is the occasion to look back on the many achievements, but much more to look into the future on how to make biodiversity knowledge a first class citizen. more

Plazi Mission

Plazi is a non-profit organisation founded in 2008 to promote the free accessibility of scientific data more

Was macht Plazi?

Plazi ist eine 2008 gegründete Non-Profit-Organisation, die sich für die freie Zugänglichkeit wissenschaftlicher Daten more

Partners

Plazi's partners include Zenodo, GBIF, Pensoft, SIB, BHL, NCBI, eCH, ZooBank, CETAF, Datacamp, FactsMission, and others more

The Story behind Plazi

Plazi is inspired by and named for Placidus Spescha, an 18th century Benedictine monk from Disentis, Switzerland more