The journals in red are the ones with the worst online presence (see complete key below). Note that BioNames is still a work in progress so there will be some journals that are online but I've simply not had a chance to add them to BioNames. With that in mind, there are some striking gaps in the digital availability of taxonomic publications. Several Russian journals (collectively publishing thousands of articles) are not online (the story here is somewhat complicated because some Russian journals also have English-language translations available but these are mostly recent articles). A number of large entomological journals are not available (perhaps not surprising given that most described animal taxa are insects).
We can think of this as a "league table" of literature availability. My hope is that digitising projects such as the Biodiversity Heritage Library will look at this and use it to help prioritise which journals to scan. In particular, if the journal is not pre-1923 (and therefore out of US copyright) I hope BHL will then contact the journal's publisher and see if they would be willing to add their journal to those (such as Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington) that have opened up their complete back catalogue to being scanned by BHL.
I also hope that scientific societies or organisations that publish journals in the "red" or "orange" zones will consider digitising their journals and making their contents accessible to the wider community. We are reaching the point where if knowledge is not online then it effectively doesn't exist.
| > 90% | Almost all are available |
| < 90% | Most are available |
| < 50% | Limited availability |
| < 10% | Mostly inaccessible |
| ISSN (click for details) | Journal | Articles | Digitised | % digitised |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1175-5326 | Zootaxa | 8581 | 8189 | 95 |
| 0374-5481 | The Annals and magazine of natural history | 4463 | 3502 | 78 |
| 1000-0739 | 880-01 Dong wu fen lei xue bao. Acta zootaxonomica Sinica | 3403 | 2450 | 72 |
| 0006-324X | Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington | 3384 | 3263 | 96 |
| 0022-3360 | Journal of paleontology | 3373 | 3121 | 93 |
| 0037-928X | Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France | 3012 | 244 | 8 |
| 0013-8797 | Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington | 2972 | 2805 | 94 |
| 0044-5134 | Zoologicheskiĭ zhurnal | 2812 | 16 | 1 |
| 0044-5231 | Zoologischer Anzeiger | 2761 | 594 | 22 |
| 0022-3395 | The Journal of parasitology | 2353 | 2222 | 94 |
| 0008-347X | The Canadian entomologist | 2260 | 2059 | 91 |
| 0003-0082 | American Museum novitates | 1942 | 1814 | 93 |
| 0035-418X | Revue suisse de zoologie | 1851 | 1581 | 85 |
| 0022-2933 | Journal of natural history | 1848 | 1823 | 99 |
| 0367-1445 | Entomologicheskoe obozrenie | 1803 | 3 | 0 |
| 0096-3801 | Proceedings of the United States National Museum | 1722 | 1365 | 79 |
| 0013-872X | Entomological news | 1691 | 1619 | 96 |
| 0370-2774 | Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London | 1580 | 1008 | 64 |
| 1000-7482 | 880-01 Kun chong fen lei xue bao = Entomotaxonomia | 1518 | 1127 | 74 |
| 0037-9271 | Annales de la Société entomologique de France | 1497 | 757 | 51 |
| 0031-031X | 880-01 Paleontologicheskiĭ zhurnal | 1472 | 31 | 2 |
| 0013-8746 | Annals of the Entomological Society of America | 1441 | 1383 | 96 |
| 0035-1814 | Revue de zoologie et de botanique africaines | 1400 | 47 | 3 |
| 0031-0603 | The Pan-Pacific entomologist | 1389 | 56 | 4 |
| 0323-6145 | Berliner entomologische Zeitschrift / herausgegeben von dem Entomologischen Vereine in Berlin | 1342 | 710 | 53 |
| 1148-8425 | Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle réunion mensuelle des naturalistes du Muséum | 1303 | 506 | 39 |
| 0013-8908 | The Entomologist's monthly magazine | 1268 | 6 | 0 |
| 0044-586X | Acarologia | 1226 | 87 | 7 |
| 0045-8511 | Copeia | 1191 | 1095 | 92 |
| 0031-0239 | Palaeontology | 1185 | 1154 | 97 |
| 0001-6616 | 880-03 Gu sheng wu xue bao = Acta palaeontologica Sinica | 1127 | 0 | 0 |
| 0165-5752 | Systematic parasitology | 1082 | 1028 | 95 |
| 0454-6296 | 880-01 Kun chong xue bao = Acta entomologica Sinica / Zhongguo kun chong xue hui bian ji | 1054 | 902 | 86 |
| 0024-0672 | Zoologische mededeelingen / uitgegeven vanwege 's Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie te Leiden | 1039 | 997 | 96 |
| 0370-047X | Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales | 1038 | 742 | 71 |
| 0030-5316 | Oriental insects | 1035 | 916 | 89 |
| 0028-7199 | Journal of the New York Entomological Society | 1013 | 860 | 85 |
| 0521-4726 | Annales historico-naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici = Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve | 1007 | 886 | 88 |
| 0070-7279 | Reichenbachia / Staatliches Museum für Tierkunde in Dresden | 951 | 2 | 0 |
| 0022-8567 | Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society | 945 | 906 | 96 |
| 0373-3491 | Bollettino della Società entomologica italiana | 940 | 14 | 1 |
| 0037-2102 | Senckenbergiana biologica | 939 | 11 | 1 |
| 0002-8320 | Transactions of the American Entomological Society | 923 | 796 | 86 |
| 0374-9797 | Nouvelle revue d'entomologie | 923 | 1 | 0 |
| 0774-2819 | Lambillionea | 918 | 0 | 0 |
| 0034-7108 | Revista Brasileira de biologia | 916 | 6 | 1 |
| 0007-1595 | Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club | 911 | 459 | 50 |
| 0013-8843 | Entomologische Zeitschrift | 881 | 4 | 0 |
| 0253-116X | Linzer biologische Beiträge / Oberösterreiches Landesmuseum | 876 | 503 | 57 |
| 0272-4634 | Journal of vertebrate paleontology | 869 | 864 | 99 |
| 1217-8837 | Acta zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae | 868 | 134 | 15 |
| 0011-216X | Crustaceana | 865 | 865 | 100 |
| 0085-5626 | Revista brasileira de entomologia | 863 | 260 | 30 |
| 0365-4389 | Annali del Museo civico di storia naturale "Giacomo Doria." | 855 | 503 | 59 |
| 0097-3157 | Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia | 848 | 500 | 59 |
| 0010-065X | The Coleopterists' bulletin | 831 | 804 | 97 |
| 1313-2989 | ZooKeys | 827 | 827 | 100 |
| 0024-4082 | Zoological journal of the Linnean Society | 823 | 821 | 100 |
| 0008-4301 | Canadian journal of zoology | 817 | 803 | 98 |
| 0028-1344 | The Nautilus | 814 | 501 | 62 |
| 0040-7496 | Tijdschrift voor entomologie | 804 | 580 | 72 |
| 0375-0434 | Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London. Series B, Taxonomy | 796 | 783 | 98 |
| 0033-2615 | Psyche | 796 | 709 | 89 |
| 0164-7954 | International journal of acarology | 787 | 786 | 100 |
| 0003-0090 | Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History | 776 | 488 | 63 |
| 0037-962X | Bulletin de la Société zoologique de France | 765 | 228 | 30 |
| 0181-0863 | Revue française d'entomologie | 765 | 6 | 1 |
| 1562-0891 | Wiener Entomologische Zeitung | 752 | 573 | 76 |
| 1000-3118 | 880-01 Gu ji zhui dong wu xue bao | 743 | 4 | 1 |
| 0003-0023 | Transactions of the American Microscopical Society | 731 | 728 | 100 |
| 0075-6547 | Koleopterologische Rundschau / herausgegeben von der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft gemeinsam mit der Forstlichen Bundesversuchsanstalt | 706 | 339 | 48 |
| 0286-9810 | 880-01 The entomological review of Japan = Konchūgaku hyōron | 704 | 98 | 14 |
| 0867-1710 | Genus | 690 | 2 | 0 |
| 0042-3580 | Venus : Japanese journal of malacology = Kairuigaku zasshi | 687 | 531 | 77 |
| 0067-1975 | Records of the Australian Museum | 679 | 629 | 93 |
| 0006-6982 | The Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society | 677 | 81 | 12 |
| 0320-9180 | Zoosystematica rossica | 676 | 6 | 1 |
| 0084-5604 | Vestnik zoologii / Akademii︠a︡ nauk Ukrainskoĭ SSR, Institut zoologii | 672 | 37 | 6 |
| 0387-5733 | Elytra | 666 | 108 | 16 |
| 0043-0439 | Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences | 664 | 603 | 91 |
| 0003-4541 | Annales zoologici / Polska Akademia Nauk, Instytut Zoologiczny | 661 | 336 | 51 |
| 0016-6995 | Geobios | 659 | 475 | 72 |
| 0004-2110 | Arkiv för zoologi / utgivet af K. Svenska vetenskaps-akademien | 658 | 59 | 9 |
| 0035-8894 | Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London | 655 | 495 | 76 |
| 0915-5805 | Japanese journal of entomology | 645 | 620 | 96 |
| 0013-8878 | The Entomologist | 645 | 14 | 2 |
| 0031-1820 | Parasitology | 641 | 614 | 96 |
| 0007-4853 | Bulletin of entomological research | 633 | 611 | 97 |
| 0375-099X | Records of the Indian Museum a journal of Indian zoology ed. by the Director, Zoological Survey of India | 630 | 213 | 34 |
| 1326-6756 | Australian journal of entomology | 629 | 629 | 100 |
| 0018-8158 | Hydrobiologia | 627 | 627 | 100 |
| 0013-8770 | 880-02 Konchū = Kontyū | 625 | 616 | 99 |
| 0217-2445 | The Raffles bulletin of zoology | 622 | 571 | 92 |
| 0372-1426 | Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, Incorporated | 622 | 450 | 72 |
| 0079-8835 | Memoirs of the Queensland Museum | 620 | 373 | 60 |
| 0003-4150 | Annales de parasitologie humaine et comparée | 612 | 355 | 58 |
| 0018-0130 | Proceedings of the Helminthological Society of Washington | 604 | 588 | 97 |
| 0015-4040 | The Florida entomologist | 602 | 601 | 100 |
| 0077-7749 | Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie. Abhandlungen | 602 | 146 | 24 |
| 1066-5234 | The journal of eukaryotic microbiology | 601 | 572 | 95 |
| 0031-0220 | Paläontologische Zeitschrift | 601 | 58 | 10 |
| 0567-7920 | Acta palaeontologica Polonica | 599 | 578 | 96 |
| 0032-3780 | Polskie pismo entomologiczne. Bulletin entomologique de Pologne | 590 | 28 | 5 |
| 0027-4100 | Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College | 581 | 444 | 76 |
| 0042-3211 | The Veliger | 578 | 274 | 47 |
| 0181-0626 | Bulletin du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle. Section A, Zoologie, biologie et écologie animales | 574 | 564 | 98 |
| 0068-547X | Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences | 573 | 261 | 46 |
| 0035-6387 | Rivista di parassitologia | 566 | 2 | 0 |
| 0003-5092 | Annotationes zoologicae Japonenses / auspiciis Societatis Zoologicae Tokyonensis seriatim editae = Nihon dōbutsugaku ihō | 562 | 545 | 97 |
| 0036-7575 | Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen entomologischen Gesellschaft = Bulletin de la Société entomologique suisse | 562 | 3 | 1 |
| 0251-074X | Revue de zoologie africaine | 560 | 18 | 3 |
| 0373-9465 | Folia entomologica Hungarica = Rovartani közlemények | 555 | 6 | 1 |
| 0206-0477 | 880-01 Trudy Zoologicheskogo instituta = Travaux de l'Institut zoologique de l'Académie des sciences de l'URSS / Akademii︠a︡ nauk Soi︠u︡za Sovetskikh Sot︠s︡ialisticheskikh Respublik | 554 | 2 | 0 |
| 1445-5226 | Invertebrate systematics | 550 | 550 | 100 |
| 0026-2803 | Micropaleontology | 548 | 409 | 75 |
| 0307-6970 | Systematic entomology | 537 | 526 | 98 |
| 0020-1804 | Insecta matsumurana | 536 | 514 | 96 |
| 0278-0372 | Journal of crustacean biology : a quarterly of the Crustacean Society for the publication of research on any aspect of the biology of crustacea | 531 | 531 | 100 |
| 0165-0424 | Aquatic insects | 525 | 525 | 100 |
| 1051-8932 | Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society | 523 | 3 | 1 |
| 0013-8711 | Entomologica scandinavica | 522 | 513 | 98 |
| 0341-8391 | Spixiana | 515 | 465 | 90 |
| 0013-8789 | Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa | 515 | 392 | 76 |
| 0018-0831 | Herpetologica | 514 | 472 | 92 |
| 0323-7087 | Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere | 513 | 176 | 34 |
| 0007-4977 | Bulletin of marine science | 510 | 397 | 78 |
| 0250-4413 | Entomofauna | 500 | 387 | 77 |
