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Nature 417, 222 (16 May 2002) | doi:10.1038/417222b

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Taxonomists need better access to published data

Donat Agosti1 & Norman F. Johnson2

  1. American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York 10024-5192, USA
  2. Insect Collection, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210-1220, USA

The biodiversity community must learn from its counterparts in the physical and biomedical sciences and move towards the provision of unhindered access to its baseline data: taxonomic descriptions, imagery, geographical and temporal distribution, and characters — molecular, morphological and behavioural (see H. C.