Hello!
 
Hi,
 
My previous post stated 10 disks must be placed with institutions.
This is incorrect it is 5 disks.
 
The PROPOSED ICZN changes for 1999 for publication of new taxa is as
follows:
 
Changes affecting publication
 
   9.A work not printed on paper (e.g., on a laser disk) issued after
1999 in numerous identical and
     durable copies may be regarded as published if supplemented by
identical copies deposited in at
     least 5 named and publicly accessible libraries.
  10.For purposes of zoological nomenclature, the following kinds of
material will be regarded as
     unpublished:
 
          (a) electronically distributed text or illustrations;
          (b) down-loaded copies or printouts of such material;
          (c) abstracts of papers, posters, lectures, etc., issued to
participants at congresses, symposia
          and other meetings but not otherwise published;
          (d) separates (reprints or offprints) distributed after 1999
in advance of the date of
          publication specified in the work of which the separate forms
part, but preprints
          incorporating their own date of distribution may be published
works.
 
end of ICZN stuff.
 
Though the internet is not yet mentioned (more like ignored by not
mentioning) it will be used, soon, mark my words, for scientific
publications. Not addressing the internet is akin to sticking your head
in the sand or "out of sight out of mind". Once the "older"
conservatives retire the modern young turks will draft internet
publication guidelines.
 
Later,
 
Emilio Jorge Power