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Jarosław TYSZKA, Eiichi SETOYAMA, Paweł TOPA, Claudia G. CETEAN, and Michael A. KAMINSKI
 
Jarosław TYSZKA, Eiichi SETOYAMA, Paweł TOPA, Claudia G. CETEAN, and Michael A. KAMINSKI
  
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Scientific information is stored and spread around the world in several ways, including our mental knowledge shared during the education and research, “classic” paper publications, electronic publications with online books and journals, data-bases, scientific community portals etc. Working on fossils, we should not forget about our empirical data available in situ (outcrops, cores) and stored in various institutional and private collections. This highly fragmented information is valuable only when it is easily accessible, shared, and understandable to the whole community. We experience a flood of scientific publications which are getting more and more specialized and fragmented. Scientific text books used to integrate such knowledge in the past, but they do not fulfil this requirement due to the overwhelming accumulation of data and new publications. We need to discover new ways to integrate existing knowledge and new information on foraminifera to keep them readily accessible.
 
Scientific information is stored and spread around the world in several ways, including our mental knowledge shared during the education and research, “classic” paper publications, electronic publications with online books and journals, data-bases, scientific community portals etc. Working on fossils, we should not forget about our empirical data available in situ (outcrops, cores) and stored in various institutional and private collections. This highly fragmented information is valuable only when it is easily accessible, shared, and understandable to the whole community. We experience a flood of scientific publications which are getting more and more specialized and fragmented. Scientific text books used to integrate such knowledge in the past, but they do not fulfil this requirement due to the overwhelming accumulation of data and new publications. We need to discover new ways to integrate existing knowledge and new information on foraminifera to keep them readily accessible.

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