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Online Library of the BGBM (under construction)
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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."
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Botanicus Digital Library of the Missouri Botanical Garden Library – "To improve access to scientific literature, we have created Botanicus, a freely accessible, Web-based encyclopedia of digitized 18th and 19th century botanical literature from the Missouri Botanical Garden Library. ... The literature to be digitized in the course of this project will be selected and prioritized based on the frequency of use and scientific importance of the bibliographic references found in TROPICOS, the Missouri Botanical Garden's botanical database. This list was generated by selecting all titles in TROPICOS published before 1925 and totalling the number of vascular (VAST) and bryophyte (MOST) names described in each."
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Kew Library – Catalogue for freely available electronic resources – The searchable catalogue contains numerous links to botanical titles available online for free somewhere on the internet.
Libri Fungorum – "is coordinated by the Index Fungorum Partnership with the aim of providing a digital archive for books, journals, thesauri, indexes and other publication important to systematic mycology (fungi and fungal analogues, including yeasts, lichens, myxomycetes, downy mildews, and all their allies)." -
Gallica. La bibliothèque numérique de la Bibliothèque nationale der France "... propose un accès à 70 000 ouvrages numérisés, à plus de 80 000 images et à plusieurs dizaines d'heures de ressources sonores. Cet ensemble constitue l'une des plus importantes bibliothèques numériques accessibles gratuitement sur l'Internet". – Der nach Sachgebiet, Titel, Autoren, etc. durchsuchbare Bestand enthält hunderte botanischer Klassiker.
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Digital Library of the Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC, Madrid – "Books are mainly related to Iberian flora but also to Latin-American and Philippines floras and other classical botanical works. Pdf high-quality images are provided."
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Analytical bibliography of on-line neo-Latin titles (Dana F. Sutton, Philological Museum, University of Birmingham). – Provides more than 16 000 title with URL, among them many botanical.
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Kurt Stüber's Online Library: Eine Sammlung historischer und moderner Biologiebücher – A collection of rare biological titles out of print, including many botanical titles.
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Flora brasiliensis – Martius, C. F. P. de [continued by: Eichler, A. W. , Urban, I.] 1840-1906: Flora brasiliensis 1-15; 10.367 pages with taxonomic treatments of 22.767 species, mostly Brazilian angiosperms.
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Klassiker der Biologie im Internet – Small collection of titels ranging from Mendel and Darwin to Köhler's Medizinalpflanzen.
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The complete work of Charles Darwin online – "This site contains Darwin's complete publications, many handwritten manuscripts and the largest Darwin bibliography and manuscript catalogue ever published. There are over 170 ancillary texts, from reference works, reviews, obituaries, recollections and more. Free mp3 downloads are available."
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The Linnaean correspondence – "This electronic edition of the correspondence of Linnaeus consists of ... reproductions of manuscripts in high and low resolution (jpg files) and reproductions of printed editions, including Bref och skrifvelser (pdf files)".
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Zentrales Verzeichnis digitalisterter Drucke (ZVDD) – (under construction) "zvdd will provide the basis for a national portal providing a general index of all scholarly relevant digitized resources dating from the beginning of printing to the 21st century. The aim is to provide comprehensive access to all digital source materials in Germany. ...The portal is not only an important component in creating new scholarly environments in an ever growing internet community, it also will serve as a central index necessary to the German libraries facing the challenge of digitizing large portions of our cultural heritage."
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Aboca Museum, Bibliotheca Antiqua " ... is comprised of books printed from the 16th century through the beginning of the 20th century. They pertain to Health and in particular the properties of medicinal plants. Included is a beautiful and diverse collection of botanical drawings and representations."
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Library of the Archbishop chateau in Kroměříž – The library offers online access to digitized books of Nicolaus Joseph Jacquin, Leopold Trattinnick und Casper Bauhin.
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MendelWeb – " MendelWeb is an educational resource for teachers and students interested in the origins of classical genetics, introductory data analysis, elementary plant science, and the history and literature of science. ... Constructed around Gregor Mendel's 1865 paper "Versuche über Pflanzen-Hybriden" and a revised version of the English translation by C.T. Druery and William Bateson, "Experiments in Plant Hybridization", MendelWeb is offered as a public sourcebook and collaborative environment compatible with a variety of guided and independent studies. ... You may wish to use MendelWeb as an archive for viewing or downloading different versions and translations of Mendel's paper, or as a source for essays and commentary, bibliography and reference materials."
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Plant species descriptions published in seed lists from Botanic Gardens for the period 1800 - 1900 – "Electronic and interactive guide [by Cees Lut in ccoperation with Jan Frits Veldkamp, National Herbarium Nederland] to descriptions of new plant species published in seed lists." The still ongoing " project aims to make available, the original descriptions in a searchable database, with the title page of the seed list and its date of publication or an estimate thereof, and the current nomenclatural status of these names (but not their present taxonomic identity)".
- Digital Historic Garden Literature – A collection of links by Clemens Alexander Wimmer (Bücherei des Deutschen Gartenbaues e.V., at the Technischen Universität Berlin).
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Digitale Bibliothek der UB Braunschweig – Botanik – Small collection of botanical titles.
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Göttinger Digitalisierungszentrum – Growing collection of digitized literature, the botanical titles, however, not listed separately.
