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Biodiversity Heritage Library

Ten major natural history museum libraries, botanical libraries, and research institutions have joined to form the Biodiversity Heritage Library Project. The group is developing a strategy and operational plan to digitize the published literature of biodiversity held in their respective collections. This literature will be available through a global “biodiversity commons.” The participating libraries have over two million volumes of biodiversity literature collected over 200 years to support the work of scientists, researchers, and students in their home institutions and throughout the world. The 10 member libraries of the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) members now have over 1.124 million pages of key taxonomic literature available on the web. http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/

 

AnimalBase logo

AnimalBase is a service provided by the University of Göttingen,

Germany . Its objective is to provide free access for all scientists to the old zoological literature, particularly to those important publications where name-bearing zoological taxa were originally described. The literature is digitized in image format by the SUB Göttingen (the university library). In the first 2-year period (2003-2005) they have digitized nearly all taxonomically relevant zoological literature up to 1770 (about 400 works).

http://www.animalbase.de/

 

Google books link 

Useful search tool for academic literature.  Google Book Search.

 

electronic Biologia Centrali-Americana link

Catalogue of weevil names

 

The main on-line resource currently is the species catalogue by

Miguel Alonso-Zarazaga and

Chris Lyal, based on their 1999 catalogue of family and genus group names, with a large number of unchecked species names added.  This can be accessed through the electronic Biologia Centrali-Americana pages.

An additional resource is the Index of Organism Names, ION, based on Zoological Record, which can be accessed at http://www.organismnames.com/.  Names and unique identifiers for those names can also be retrieved from uBio.   

 

 

 

Curculio is an international newsletter devoted to dissemination of knowledge about Curculionoidea. It is published in March and September. The files listed below are in pdf

format and can be printed but not searched for key words.  Volumes 38-55 are currently available on the Coleopterists Society website.  

 



Curculio Institute: Centre for Studies on European/Palearctic Curculionoidea.  http://www.curci.de/

 

 Useful website on Coleoptera designed by Zoological Institute RAS, St Petersburg, Russia covering a wide range of topics.  

 

Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical): Ed Baker, Katherine Bouton Alice Heaton Dimitris Koureas, Laurence Livermore, Dave Roberts, Simon Rycroft, Ben Scott, Vince Smith