[Taxacom] Centrally supported electronic archive

[Frank Farruggia]

Dear Karen,

We do already have a few amazing publication databases started.  For example the few that I have been delving into lately are "Botanicus" (http://www.botanicus.org/), "The Biodiversity Heritage Library" (http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/About.aspx), and "Bibliotecha Digital del Real Jardin Botanico Madrid" (http://bibdigital.rjb.csic.es/spa/index.php).  These are amazing tools for older, hard to find literature, as well as some recent journals but if the infrastructure is there or could be easily enhanced these three sources could be linked and updated to include the more recent pubs as well as those journals which are principally electronic.  

The first two have a nice feature which identifies species names that are found in each page.  I have been inquiring about having a tool to search the publication for specific taxon names to help with the difficult to locate names.  

Just a thought.

Frank


Frank T. Farruggia 

School of Life Sciences

Arizona State University

Tempe, AZ 85287

Frank.Farruggia at asu.edu




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