Biodiversity Service & Application Tracker

References Fri, 10/17/2008 - 10:47

Tolkin Wed, 07/09/2008 - 14:00

TOLKIN is an on-line research tool to be shared among several laboratories working remotely. It is an information management and analytical web application to provide informatics support for phylodiversity and biodiversity research projects. As a web-based application, TOLKIN is able to support collaborative projects by providing shared access to a variety of data on voucher specimens, taxonomy, bibliography, morphology, DNA samples and sequences.

International Plant Names Index (IPNI) Thu, 01/17/2008 - 17:35

The International Plant Names Index (IPNI) is a database of the names and associated basic bibliographical details of all seed plants, ferns and fern allies. Its goal is to eliminate the need for repeated reference to primary sources for basic bibliographic information about plant names. The data are freely available and are gradually being standardized and checked. IPNI will be a dynamic resource, depending on direct contributions by all members of the botanical community.

IPNI is the product of a collaboration between The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, The Harvard University Herbaria, and the Australian National Herbarium

CiteULike Wed, 01/16/2008 - 16:00

CiteULike is a free service to help you to store, organise and share the scholarly papers you are reading. When you see a paper on the web that interests you, you can click one button and have it added to your personal library. CiteULike automatically extracts the citation details, so there's no need to type them in yourself. It all works from within your web browser so there's no need to install any software. Because your library is stored on the server, you can access it from any computer with an Internet connection.

BibDesk v1.3.13 Thu, 01/17/2008 - 13:52

BibDesk is a bibliographic reference manager for Mac OS X. BibDesk is designed to help organize and use bibliographic databases in BibTeX .bib format. In addition to manual typing, BibDesk lets you drag & drop or cut & paste .bib files into the bibliographic database and automatically opens files downloaded from PubMed. BibDesk also keeps track of electronic copies of literature on your computer and allows for searching your database through several keys.

BibDesk integrates well with TeX for creating citations and bibliographies. This integration includes a Citation search completion service, and drag & drop (cut & paste) support for adding citations to TeX files.

Procite v5 Thu, 05/24/2007 - 11:13

Search the Internet for References Search PubMed and Internet libraries worldwide from ProCite. Export references directly from Web of Science, Current Contents and Discovery Agent. Build your personal reference collection from hundreds of diskette, CD-ROM, Online and Web databases – reduce data entry. Manage Your References Organise your data using standard Windows and Macintosh navigational tools in ProCite. Link to the World Wide Web and capture Web pages into your ProCite database. Locate references in seconds with powerful searching options, such as contains, empty/not empty and more. Save search expressions and re-use them later. Create reference groups to identify a specific subset of a database. Use seven pre-defined sorting options or create your own. Edit records individually or globally. Customise your reference list display – even preview a formatted reference. Create Instant Bibliographies ProCite offers the most flexible and powerful way to cite references within your word processor. Format bibliographies for hundreds of journal styles, or create your own. Revise your manuscript as many times as needed – all within your word processor. Use subject lists to present data organised by author, keyword or any other field. Share References on a Network Organise collections for a group of users ProCite is also available as a network program. The network program is licensed based either on the number of workstations or on the number of concurrent accesses to the program.

Endnote v10 Thu, 05/24/2007 - 09:14

EndNote connects to Internet-based libraries of reference data (there are many free-access databases in addition to those that your organization or institution subscribes to) and locate the references for citation. EndNote stores, catalogues and indexes these references in your own custom reference databases, together with images, figures, files and links that you want to include or cite. And EndNote integrates into your word processor to make it easy to insert citations and create bibliographies and figure lists, with every entry automatically and consistently formatted in the style you, or your publishers, prefer.

Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) Wed, 10/17/2007 - 09:52

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.

The BHL will provide basic, important content for immediate research and for multiple bioinformatics initiatives. For the first time in history, the core of our natural history and herbaria library collections will be available to a truly global audience. Web-based access to these collections will provide a substantial benefit to people living and working in the developing world -- whether scientists or policymakers.

Bibster v1.1.3 Thu, 05/24/2007 - 09:26

Bibster is a Java-based system which assists researchers in managing, searching, and sharing bibliographic metadata (e.g. from BibTeX files) in a peer-to-peer network.

The advantage of the system is it provides the possibility to search on a distributed peer-to-peer network using Semantic Web technologies. It provides an easy way to share data with other researchers.

AnimalBase Wed, 10/17/2007 - 09:43

The AnimalBase database is primarily established to link the old literature with the names of the animals described therein. We have continuously gone through the old works, from 1757 onwards, and entered all correctly described new animal names (genera and species taxa) by hand according to a standard established by our working group.

Today the database should include all zoological taxa described from 1757 until 1770. The names are entered into the database along the original literature and largely independently from other databases and secondary literature sources, so that errors will not be duplicated.