Snapshot of PDF links for taxonomic papers in BioNames

This dataset is a list of all URLs for PDFs in the database BioNames, which links publications of new taxonomic names for animals to persistent identifiers and PDFs for those publications. The database is continually edited and hence PDF links that no longer work or have changed (e.g., from HTTP to HTTPS) may be overwritten. Because no longer functioning PDF links may be useful measures of link rot I have created this snapshot of PDF links in the current version of BioNames This snapshot was made on the date the data was uploaded to Zenodo. It may be updated in future versions.

The dataset was generated from a local MySQL database using the query:

SELECT DISTINCT IFNULL(sici, '') AS sici,  IFNULL(title, '') AS title,  IFNULL(journal, '') AS journal, IFNULL(volume, '') AS volume,  IFNULL(spage, '') AS spage,  IFNULL(epage, '') AS epage,  IFNULL(year, '') AS year,  IFNULL(doi, '') AS doi,  IFNULL(handle, '') AS handle,  IFNULL(url, '') AS url, pdf,updatedFROM names WHERE pdf IS NOT NULL ORDER BY journal, year;

The data is a TSV file with the following column headings:

Column name
Column contents

sici
MD5 hash of bibliographic metadata, used as unique identifier within BioNames.

title
Title of publication

journal
Journal publication appears in

volume
Volume

spage
Starting page

epage
Ending page

year
Year of publication

doi
DOI https://doi.org

handle
Handle https://hdl.handle.net

url
Link to publication web page

pdf
Link to PDF

updated
Date and time the bibliographic record was last updated (note that this is the last time any information on this record was updated, not necessarily the date the PDF link was added).

Note that cells may be empty if data for that cell is not known, or not relevant (for example, if publication is not a journal article then "journal" will be empty).