Abstract
On pages 57–67 of this issue of Zootaxa we publish a notice entitled “Proposed amendment of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature to expand and refine methods of publication” by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN 2008). We publish this notice under the “Creative Commons Attribution License” (for information about this license, see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) to make it freely available online for everyone to read, download, copy, distribute, and use (with attribution). Zootaxa is now the most important journal in zoological taxonomy with the largest base of editors and authors (over 5000) and the highest rate of online access use. It is opportune for Zootaxa to help publicise this important notice by ICZN so that it reaches the widest readership possible.
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