I hope this initiative also works as a call to arms. For too long we have been collecting in some of the most diverse and threatened ecosystems on Earth, sorting out our specimens of interest and leaving all the other mate- rial sad and lonely in freezers or collection rooms. With the world becoming a global village connected by instant messaging and social media, and a rampant biodiversity crisis, now more than ever is the time to share! Coming back “home” in speed boats (“voadeiras”) after a long day of work. Consider budgeting for specimen sorting services in your next expeditions, and see the amount of available ma- terial for taxonomic and evolutionary research go up exponentially for the benefit of all of all of us—and the growth of scientific knowledge! ◦ TreatmentBank and Biodiversity Literature Repository: a further steps towards access to the data in scientific publications By: Donat Agosti, Plazi, Bern, Switzerland; agosti@amnh.org Digitization offers great opportunities for tax- onomists. Hymenopterists started early in this area, built one of the first online catalogues for a megadiverse taxon (Nature, 2002), obtained the first grant from Smithso- nian’s Atherton-Seidall foundation to digitize publica- tions (together with the mosquitoes and Biologia Cen- trali Americana projects) in the pre-Biodiversity Heritage Library era, have been activists calling for open access to taxonomic data for everybody, and the Hymenoptera Name Server is still one of the largest online catalogues for a given large taxon. Time is moving beyond the PDF into sub-article elements and facts of traits. Hymenopter- ists have been involved in the launch of the first seman- tically enhanced taxonomic, probably scientific overall, publication Pensoft launched in 2010, using Taxpub, a schema developed together with the National Institutes of Health and Pensoft. Norm Johnson et al. (2010) pro- vided at this time the first manuscript produced by a script right off his database. Norm has also been the first who made use of a follow-up project, the Biodiversity Literature Repository at Zenodo/CERN, and uploaded the first 4,000 publica- tions. This project started as a side project to Treatment- Bank, which has its roots in 2002, in an early binational US-NSF-German DFG project to model taxonomic liter- ature. This lead eventually to the foundation of Plazi in 2008 as the institution that took care of developing the text to data conversion tool GoldenGate, maintains Tax- pub, and TreatmentBank, the repository for taxonomic treatments. The Biodiversity Literature Repository had originally the role to host all the PDF we used in the data conversion. But soon, we realized its full power. This collaboration with Zenodo/CERN offers not only almost unlimited repository space—you can add your PDFs here too—the highest degree of probability that the archive will not be sold to a commercial publisher or another private enterprise, Hymenoptera genitalia illustrations recovered from digitized publications; see text for full description. but it also mints Digital Object Identifiers (DOI) for free, vital today to cite properly scientific articles and data in our publications. Additionally, they also offered space to store illustrations (and provide DOIs), and encouraged the users to add as many links to related items as possi- ble. With its generous and liberal data policy, articles up to year 2000 can be made open access, and small publish- ers could obtain a DOI for their new articles. For Plazi, this offered a unique opportunity to follow through not only to extract taxonomic treatments, named entities and International Society of Hymenopterists  hymenopterists.org  adeans@gmail.com (editor) Page 3