Registration (see ICN: Art. 42)

To register a name which will soon be published click here; please do not register names which have been previously registered with other repositories – e.g. Fungal Names or MycoBank – as this creates a duplicate record and, after 1st January 2013, could result in an invalid name. To add a name which is already published but missing from IF click here; names will be reviewed before they become visible in search results.

After you register names you will be emailed an Index Fungorum identifier which should be cited in the protologue. The name will not be released until it is effectively published. When registering names the bibliographic details required are those where you intend to publish the name you are registering, NOT the basionym reference, or the replaced synonym reference or, for typification, the reference to the name you are typifying – all these details are already available in Index Fungorum and will be retrieved during the pre-publication review. If they are not present the relevant records should be updated if you intend to use the e-Publishing system.

The IF registration system is separate from the IF publishing system; when you register names (of new taxa, new combinations, new names) or typifications the email address you use to obtain the indentifier also identifies these names/typifications as ‘yours’. When you create an account to publish with the same email address this provides access to ‘your’ names to publish.

e-Publishing (see ICN: Art. 29)

You can publish names immediately after registering a name or names but this requires a login – if you do not have a user login create one here; you can then login here. All previous IF publications can be viewed and downloaded here; names published in these e-publications were compiled by S.A. Redhead (Chair, NCF) and can be viewed here.

When registering names/typifications the bibliographic details required are those where you intend to publish the names/typifications you are registering, NOT the basionym reference, or the replaced synonym reference or, for typification, the reference to the name you are typifying – all these details are already available in Index Fungorum and will be retrieved during the pre-publication review. If they are not present or lack nomenclaturally relevant data the record should be updated before publishing; search for the name here, select it, and use the update option – the new data will be reviewed before it becomes available.

Allocations of identifiers in Index Fungorum, MycoBank and other repositories can be viewed here. The identifiers are unique for any name independant of where they were issued. For example, an identifier issued by Index Fungorum will resolve via an Index Fungorum URL – http://www.indexfungorum.org/Names/NamesRecord.asp?RecordID=550000 – and a MycoBank URL – http://www.mycobank.org/MycoTaxo.aspx?Link=T&Rec=550000.

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