Katydid CD ROM

[Piotr Naskrecki]

A few more comments and a clarification concerning our CD ROM.

Margaret K. Thayer wrote:

>Producing and selling it as a book would be astronomically more expensive,
>as you know, and not electronically searchable, either.
This is absolutely true, a book, even with a fraction of the
illustrations included on the CD would be prohibitively expensive, not to
mention that no sane publisher would agree to publish such a monster.

>Unless there's
>been a change, the info is also available free on the web (but requires a
>connection to use it).
No change there, the Orthoptera Species File Online is still available
for free (and always will be). Actually, there are some major
improvements and additions on the horizon. Recently we also added a
database of recent (and not so recent) publications on Orthoptera,
accessible from the Orthopterists' Society web site.

>From Piotr's response, it sounds as if it was not
>subsidized by, say, USDA or other institutions or agencies.
A major clarification here - creation of this CD in its current format
was made possible largely by support from the National Science Foundation
(as a part of a grant to Dan Otte and Piotr Naskrecki to study phylogeny
of Tettigonioidea). However, we started this project long before we had
any support and our personal investment had been substantial. Practically
all images taken before July 1997 (nearly 50% of all images) and most of
the taxonomic portion of the catalog had been assembled before we
received the grant.

Cheers,
Piotr Naskrecki

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Piotr Naskrecki
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
University of Connecticut, Storrs CT 06269, USA

e-mail: pin93001 at uconnvm.uconn.edu

An Illustrated Catalog of Orthoptera (http://viceroy.eeb.uconn.edu/cd) -
a database of the Orthoptera of the World on a CD ROM

Orthoptera Species File Online (http://viceroy.eeb.uconn.edu/Orthoptera)
- a database of the Orthoptera of the World Online

Katydids of La Selva Biological Station Costa Rica
(http://viceroy.eeb.uconn.edu/interkey/titlepg)

Taxonomy and Collection Manager software
(http://viceroy.eeb.uconn.edu/interkey/database.html)