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