This co-production helped get rid of the three-year lag in the publication of the index by instituting a "catch up" program to bring The Zoological Record up-to-date.
[4] February 2004 saw the acquisition of BIOSIS by Thomson ISI, again changing the producer of The Zoological Record.
What follows is a list of the phyla covered in the Zoological Record for different years: There has never been a single official repository for the recording of zoological names, despite the widespread recognition in the scientific community of the need for a comprehensive database of living organisms.
In 1995, the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature was under development for the revised fourth edition (to be published in 1999).
In the development, a recommendation was made for a process of "international notification" for new names in zoology.
[12] Similar biological nomenclature organizations and databases exist, such as the Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA), the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), Species 2000, and the Taxonomic Database Working Group (TDWG).