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The purpose of this Bibliography and Archive of the Pterosauria is to disseminate knowledge about pterosaurs and pterosaur research in the hopes of directly or indirectly facilitating further pterosaur research. Chris Bennett conceived of an archive of pdf's that could be distributed by CD in the Fall of 2002 and at that time began assembling a collection of pdfs of old publications. Nothing more was done until the Fall of 2008 when he learned of Ken Carpenter's Ankylosaur PDF Library and Rob Taylor's The Theropod Archives, and thereby was prodded to compile the html Bibliography and start posting his meagre collection of pdf's online. The webpage first went online on 25 November 2008. The Bibliography was compiled from OCR scans of Plieninger's (1929) Fossilium Catalogus, Pars 45 and Kuhn's (1961) Fossilium Catalogus, Pars 99, and the personal bibliography of Chris Bennett. It was then compared to the bibliography of Wellnhofer's (1978) Handbuch der Paleoherpetologie, Teil 19 and selected online bibliographies (e.g., SVP's Bibliography of Vertebrate Paleontology and Tracy Ford's Dinotreker website) to check for omissions. The Bibliography is intended to be comprehensive and include all technical contributions and important non-technical contributions, and so includes even references of uncertain value or importance until their value and importance can be verified, which necessitates the question mark icon to identify unverified references. The Bibliography is also intended to be annotated at least to the extent that it should be clear why a verified publication is included even if its title does not suggest it relates to pterosaurs. Users are encouraged to submit corrections, additions, pdfs, links, etc. to the Webmaster to help make the Bibliography and Archive of the Pterosauria as accurate and up to date as possible. Links to Similar Archives:
Ankylosaur PDF Library Statement on Copyrights: The Bibliography and Archive of the Pterosauria is non-profit, and it is hoped that the disseminaton of pdf's through this web page conforms to the spirit of the Fair Use provision of U.S. Copyright Law. If any stakeholder in a publication (i.e., author or publisher or copyright holder) objects to having a pdf made available through this webpage, they need only contact the Webmaster and the pdf will be removed as soon as possible. Citation Style Guidelines: The format for books is: "Author surname, Author initials separated by periods. Date. Title italicized. Publisher. Page numbers." Two authors are linked by 'and' with the same surname and intials order, and multiple authors are separated by commas. The format for periodical articles is: "Author surname, Author initials separated by periods. Date. Title. Periodical name, Volume number:Page numbers." An issue number in parentheses after the volume number is included only if necessary. The format for articles in books is: "Author surname, Author initials separated by periods. Date. Title. Page numbers 'in:' Editor surname, Editor initials separated by periods, 'ed.' Book Title italicized. Publisher." The format for articles in special issues of periodicals is: "Author surname, Author initials separated by periods. Date. Title. 'In:' Editor surname, Editor initials separated by periods, 'ed.' Special Issue Title italicized. Page Journal name, Volume number:Page numbers." Chinese names are either abbreviated as in the publication or are rendered as "Surname Given-name" with no separating commas. As for non-English languages, I am a native English speaker who can by virtue of cognates figure out the meaning of titles is most Germanic and Romance languages, and so I see no need to include translated titles for papers written in those languages. For other languages (e.g., Russian and Chinese), I may include a translated title, set off within square brackets and quotation marks, if one is available. As for diacritical marks, I include umlauts because I read German, but I have not worried about diacritical marks in other languages because their absence does not offend me. Sorry if it offends you. PDF Naming Style: The format for naming pdf files that are included in the Archive, rather than simply linked to, is: "Author surname[-Additional author surnames or -etal as necessary]-year[a, b, c, etc. as needed][-optional subject word or brief phrase].pdf"; all separated by hyphens. Surnames are capitalized, but all else is lower case. Contributors: Eric Buffetaut Fabio Dalla Vecchia Michael Everhart Kevin Padian Andre Veldmeijer Last update: 4 January 2009 |