On the 1st of April, 2020, a new copyright law was enacted in Switzerland. Amongst other revision points, it declares an extension of the protection of... more

The COVID-19 pandemic presumably started with the escape of the Coronavirus from its bat host to humans... more

Following discussions on Taxacom list server on the value on Open Science, here some points to consider... more

Taxonomic literature is an almost untapped resource of data covering our scholarly knowledge of biodiversity... more

The Swiss Parliament adopted a new copyright law with a large exception to copyright for the use of protected works for scientific research more

Am kommenden Montag (21.1.2019) berät die Kommission for Wissenschaft, Bildung und Kultur (WBK) des schweizerischen Ständerates die Revision des... more

The taxonomic literature is a rich, high quality, and largely untapped source of biodiversity knowledge. Taxonomy helps us recognize species and map their distributions through text descriptions, images, and records of when and where they have been observed... more

When Jérôme Constant published yesterday his taxonomic article on eurybrachid planthopper insects in the European Journal of Taxonomy... more

The Thursday November 29, 2018 (doi) issue of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung includes a “Gastkommentar” by me (Donat Agosti)... more

When an 'ex banker' - Tim Robertson - meets an 'ex taxonomist' - Donat Agosti... more