OmniPaper Project

The ARACNOLAB internet resource on Opilionological Taxonomic Literature

by AB Kury

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You may cite this page as:

Kury, A.B. (2003 onwards) OmniPaper Project — The ARACNOLAB internet resource on Opilionological Taxonomic Literature. Museu Nacional/UFRJ website. Online at: http://www.museunacional.ufrj.br/mndi/Aracnologia/pdfliteratura/pdfs%20opiliones.htm

INTRODUCTION

Taxonomic papers are the basic building blocks for the knowledge of a group. One of the major hindrances for students starting to research taxonomy of a group is literature, which may be scattered among hundreds of papers issued by the most varied publishers worldwide.

What if the primary taxonomic literature on Opiliones was within easy reach on the web? For free, without having to go through endless cascading popups or to register? All this done by a professional arachnologist on an university website? This is what OmniPaper is about.

Papers are organized author-wise, not publishing place-wise. Make sure to check often -- I make many additions and corrections every week.

OBJECTIVES

(1) To work as a bibliographical resource for systematics of Opiliones on the web.

(2) To prepare PDF files of taxonomic papers on Opiliones and to distribute it freely.

CREDITS

(1) All research, contacts, digitalizing, OCR-ing, PDF-ing, spell-checking, whatever-ing is done by AB Kury, except where otherwise noted (I try to give honest credit to everyone who did anything) on each page. General credits and details are in the bottom of this page.

(2) Wanna help? And yes, I need support from my colleagues around the world, if you happen to have any of the papers listed on my page of desiderata, I'd be glad to get a copy, reprint, PDF, images, whatever you can and is convenient for you.

(3) Note: This page is my contribution to the development of opilionology, aiming to make things easier to everyone. Please, don't be like some ant taxonomists and American myriapodologist, snatching pictures, etc without due credit. It won't hurt to cite Omnipaper as the source.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

(1) OmniPaper is manually and painfully organized by AB Kury, however there is a number of wonderful people who spent their own time to assist me in many ways, and I here heartily thank them for helping with this project (I've tried to add more explicit credits on each individual page):

(2) I wish to immensely thank Ricardo Pinto-da-Rocha (Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo), who, besides taking photocopies whenever he is in Europe, also kindly contributed a number of PDFs, built with support from FAPESP, for the OmniPaper project. These are marked with the sign [DL RIC's PDF]. Likewise, Axel Schönhofer (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz) also generously contributed other PDF's, which are marked [GET AXEL'S PDF].

(3) German libraries 2009. In a frantic effort to gather literature, along with my sidekick, I made a visit to Deutschland in April 2009, where I received immense support and assistance from the following persons besides my fantastic host Jason Dunlop: the brilliant Anja Friederichs (Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin), the thoughtful Hans-Ulrich Raake (Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin), the dedicated Ute Kaczinski and all the friendly staff at the Senckenberg Deutsches Entomologisches Institut (Müncheberg, Brandenburg), the attentious librarians at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek, Zweigbibliothek Agrarwissenschaften (Berlin). Also my warmest thanks are due to the competent staff of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Potsdamer Straße for making everything easier for me.

(4) Axel Schönhofer is steadily supporting this project in many different ways.

(5) Thanks to Emmanuel Delfosse for checking broken links.

(6) I wish to thank all the colleagues who sent me over the years reprints/photocopies of their own works and those who sent their own pictures and biographical information.

(7) I decided just out of curiosity to put a visit counter in March 9th, 2011 and became very impressed to see around 110 hits a day. OmniPaper seems to be fulfilling its purpose to aggregate the Opilio-community, even if it's only to snatch a few PDFs...

OTHER PAGES IN OMNIPAPER PROJECT

QUICK JUMP LIST TO MINOR AUTHORS NAMES:

Audouin - Ausobsky - Ausserer - Balazuc - Baumann - Bayram - Benavides - Berland - Beutelspacher - Bosc - Brullé - Büttner - Cauchois - Ciobanu - Çorak - Derouet - Eglitis - Frers - Fuhn - Fujita - Grasshoff - Geoffroy - Hackman - Heller - Herbst - Husson - Jaquet - Kritscher - Kurt - Machida - Merino - Oltean - Perera - Rabeler - Rodriguez - Rosas Costa - Roşca - Saito - Sato - Savigny - Sill - Spungis - Stecker - Steinberger - Takashima - Tumšs - Uyemura - Vilbaste - Yaginuma - Yigit -

What are the criteria for an author to be considered major as opposed to minor in OmniPaper? -- It varies a lot. There is a great degree of subjectivity. In general, authors that have published less than 4 papers or that are only tangentially devoted to Opiliones go to a collective page. But if either I happen to have a nice picture and some basic biographical info, or the work is of some importance for taxonomy/nomenclature, or the author has the courtesy of replying to e-mails, then such an author could be "promoted" to major and gain an individual page even with only 1 or 2 papers. Some famous zoologists who are widely known but have published little on Opiliones tend to get their very own pages. It depends also on my time to elaborate the pages. So a potential major author could be listed amidst the minor while I don't turn my attention to him/her to make an individual page. If you feel an author is unfairly listed among the minor, you may file a complain to me.

EXTERNAL LINKS:

Link to Internet Archive.

Link to WorldCat of libraries.

Link to Zeitschriftendatenbank (ZDB).

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Protocol is as follows:
1. Strictly taxonomic papers are identified and selected from libraries. They are listed in pages mounted mostly for each individual author.
2. Images of pages are produced using ordinary scanners in 256 shades of grey at 400 or 600 dpi.
3. Digital images are based rather on originals than on photocopies, when available.
4. Once digitalized, the image is adequately rotated and noise is cleaned.
5. Then individual image files are loaded in ScanSoft OmniPage 14.0, recognized and proofed.
6. The file is then exported to Adobe Acrobat PDF format as a searchable PDF.
7. Original jpg images of pages are filed in backup CDs/DVDs for eventual checking.

Format:
1. In a primary author page, a personal box is given with a picture (when available) and summary biographical information.
2. In the personal author box, links to co-authors pages are also present IF the primary author is not the first named.
3. Color combinations of the pages do not follow any pattern, they are random combinations intended to break the narcosis-inducing monotony of same-colored pages repeated over and over or to avoid blinding-white backgrounds.
4. I have not yet prepared specific OmniPaper pages for all the members of our laboratory. Some links here point to our ordinary pages, therefore they do not conform to standard OmniPaper format.
5. I tried to double check for accurate spellings and paid special attention to the UNICODE extended characters. Russian and Japanese authors when possible have also their names written in the original form.

Comments:
1. It is not known if OmniPaper is a worthwhile effort. Progress is slow. There are only a few pdfs so far.
2. A few contributions by our contemporaneous colleagues (already in "official" pdf format) are also here as well as official AMNH and JOA PDFs.
3. Some may be concerned about copyright issues. I'm not. Fair use may be invoked. After all, this is an EDUCATIONAL resource, without any commercial aspect. I'm not receiving any extra money for doing this and I'm using my spare time because I believe it's important for the advance of arachnology. Initiatives like this should be promoted. And zealots, please don't come to me saying that displaying some papers here will disturb in any way the health of the printers. This is hypocrisy and I will ignore it. This is not Wikipedia.
4. This page is my intellectual creation, so it's accordingly marked as such. But I don't mind people using information contained here for education and research purposes. That's what the web's about. I only wanted to see the credits and the sources cited as I did. Don't do as some who just ruthless snatch my material without giving any credit.

Credits:
1. Most of the effort and original research is done by A. B. Kury (originally based on James Cokendolpher's bibliography list, but greatly enlarged and updated), relying on the bibliographical resources of the Arachnology Lab in the MNRJ which counts with the private M-L and Helia Soares libraries.
2. Some biographical/iconographical information has been gathered from the web and it is always clearly credited, although explicit authorization for use here is not granted in some cases.

Credits

Page created Copyright © 2003-2012 by Adriano B. Kury.