[Taxacom] JSTOR Plant Science

[Lauren Eserman]

Dear Taxacom members,

I am examining specimens on JSTOR Plant Science, and I do not think that the
measurements provided by the measurement tool are correct (when I use the
tool to measure 1 cm on the ruler on the specimen, it says 3.64 mm).

If anyone else has encountered this issue or knows of a fix, I would greatly
appreciate any help. I am working on a taxonomic revision, so measurements
must be accurate and precise. I have already emailed the JSTOR Plant Science
staff, but I wanted to also see if anyone here had any ideas.

Thank you kindly,
Lauren Eserman


On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 7:36 AM, Sweeney, Patrick
<patrick.sweeney at yale.edu>wrote:

> Dear Colleagues,
>
> As part of the Global Plants Initiative (GPI), funded by the Andrew W.
> Mellon Foundation, our institution has joined almost 200 others in working
> together to digitize our type specimens. The GPI project started in 2003 as
> the African Plants Initiative and expanded to Latin America in 2008. Now it
> is global and is sharing close to 1 million type specimen images and
> associated specimen-level metadata. The main goal of the project is to
> preserve and provide access to types scattered across the globe in various
> museums and herbaria. These are all made available on JSTOR Plant Science at
> http://plants.jstor.org.
>
> JSTOR Plant Science is an online environment that brings together content,
> tools, and people interested in plant science. It provides access to
> foundational content vital to plant science - plant type specimens,
> scientific literature, and related materials, making them widely accessible
> to the plant science community as well as to researchers in other fields and
> to the public. It also provides an easy to use interface with powerful
> functionality that supports research and teaching, including the ability to
> measure plant specimens, share observations and objects with colleagues and
> classmates, and investigate global plant biodiversity.
>
> The content at http://plants.jstor.org is accessible to all JSTOR
> Participants and GPI partners until 2012 so take a look if interested. If
> you are interested in joining the project or have any questions contact the
> staff at plants at jstor.org.
>
> Thanks for reading and apologies for any cross listings!
>
> Best,
> Patrick
> ________________________________
> Patrick Sweeney, Ph.D.
> Collections Manager, Division of Botany
>
> Peabody Museum of Natural History
> Yale University, P.O. Box 208118
> New Haven, CT 06520-8118
> http://www.peabody.yale.edu/collections/bot
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Lauren Eserman
Graduate Student
Southeastern Louisiana University
Dept. of Biological Sciences
Phone: 985-549-3008 (office)