Chapter 7

Abbreviations, Acronyms and Electronic Libraries

Abbreviations, Acronyms and Electronic Libraries with relevance to biodiversity and taxonomy are constantly integrated into the main database at the German GTI-NFP webpage.

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BIOTA NEOTROPICA is an electronic, peer-reviewed journal edited by the Program BIOTA/FAPESP: The Virtual Institute of Biodiversity. This journal's aim is to disseminate the results of original research work, associated or not to the program, concerned with characterization, conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity within the Neotropical region. In Spanish, Portuguese and English.

INDEX ANIMALIUM / Charles Davies Sherborn

The Electronic Biologia Centrali-Americana project, and the associated INOTAXA project (INtegrated Open TAXonomic Access), grew from a desire by the partners to widen greatly the accessibility of the information they hold. Currently data needed to undertake many kinds of research, including taxonomic, are available only as a scattered and widely distributed resources, inaccessible or unknown to the majority of the people who need them. Many of these data are held by the project partners, in their libraries, attached to specimens in their collections, in their card indices or in databases. The INOTAXA project was recently renamed from Biologia Centrali-Americana Centennial (BCAC) to reflect the larger scope of the project as defined from its inception.

Biodiversity Heritage Library: Representatives of a number of major natural history and botanical libraries met at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., with the support of the Smithsonian Institution, to develop a strategy and operational plan to digitize the published literature of biodiversity held in their respective collections and to make that literature available for open access and responsible use as a part of a global “biodiversity commons.”

Database on Biodiversity Literature. The German GTI-NFP has collected literature relevant for the political and scientific biodiversity and taxonomy discussions. This collection has more than 330 (increasing) references from books, journal and other publications, which we now would like to make public. Abstracts to about a third of the papers are available and are just one click away. Try the database and follow this link ...

BIOBLIOTHECA DIGITAL, REAL JARDIN BOTANICO CSIC: New library for classical works in botanical literature online, with an extensive link list to other such projects.