Dear colleagues,
Biological science produces a lot of visual information, which is stored in the form of photographs, videos, large tables and computer programs. A small part of this data has been published as classic articles. Some materials are available on the websites of universities and other scientific organizations. Information from websites can be cited in articles, but we have found that some links have become inaccessible. Investigations show that sometimes the information was deleted after the reorganization or liquidation of the host scientific organization or group. Thus, we may lose valuable and unique data.
A possible solution is to store the data on a Web-pages of several acting scientists under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 Generic License. In short, this License means that anyone can use and modify the material for non-commercial purposes as long as they refer to the author(s) and describe any modifications.
So, if you have photos or videos, large tables or computer programs that need to be saved in a form that allows other scientists to cite them, you can send us that data. Please add some (any) description and information for citation: author(s), title.
We will post the material on this page and ask colleagues around the world to keep a copy of this page on their sites.

The other way to save the data is to publish them as Supplemental Material to a short or full article in Limnology and Freshwater Biology (a young, peer-reviewed, open-access free Journal published by the Limnological Institute, Irkutsk, Russia with no publication charges). We are attempting to get Limnology and Freshwater Biology indexed in Scopus and Web of Science. Details are here. While we are starting with material on diatoms, any subject or organism relevant to Limnology and Freshwater Biology is acceptable.

Trully yours,

Vadim Annenkov, Deputy director, Limnological Institute, Irkutsk, Russia annenkov@lin.irk.ru annenkov@yahoo.com

Richard Gordon, Itinerant Theoretical Biologist, Gulf Specimen Marine Lab & Aquarium, Panacea, Florida C.S. Mott Center for Human Growth & Development, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan DickGordonCan@protonmail.com