This dataset is a list of all URLs for PDFs in the database BioNames, which links publications of new taxonomic names for animals to persistent identifiers and PDFs for those publications. The database is continually edited and hence PDF links that no longer work or have changed (e.g., from HTTP to HTTPS) may be overwritten. Because no longer functioning PDF links may be useful measures of link rot I have created this snapshot of PDF links in the current version of BioNames This snapshot was made on the date the data was uploaded to Zenodo. It may be updated in future versions. The dataset was generated from a local MySQL database using the query: SELECT DISTINCT IFNULL(sici, '') AS sici, IFNULL(title, '') AS title, IFNULL(journal, '') AS journal, IFNULL(volume, '') AS volume, IFNULL(spage, '') AS spage, IFNULL(epage, '') AS epage, IFNULL(year, '') AS year, IFNULL(doi, '') AS doi, IFNULL(handle, '') AS handle, IFNULL(url, '') AS url, pdf,updatedFROM names WHERE pdf IS NOT NULL ORDER BY journal, year; The data is a TSV file with the following column headings: Column name Column contents sici MD5 hash of bibliographic metadata, used as unique identifier within BioNames. title Title of publication journal Journal publication appears in volume Volume spage Starting page epage Ending page year Year of publication doi DOI https://doi.org handle Handle https://hdl.handle.net url Link to publication web page pdf Link to PDF updated Date and time the bibliographic record was last updated (note that this is the last time any information on this record was updated, not necessarily the date the PDF link was added). Note that cells may be empty if data for that cell is not known, or not relevant (for example, if publication is not a journal article then "journal" will be empty).