[Nhcoll-l] estimating collections in the USA

[Deborah Paul]

Hi Anna,

On 2019-02-14 3:05 PM, Anna Thanukos <thanukos at berkeley.edu> wrote:
> Hello all, I'm an educator at the University of California Museum of Paleontology.  For a grant we are submitting, I'm trying to come up with an estimate of the number of natural history collections there are in the United States (a bonus would be estimating how many of these lack significant public spaces and are mainly for scientific use).
The most robust list of US Collections is likely the resource in the 
ADBC community hosted and managed by iDigBio.
https://www.idigbio.org/portal/collections You can contact Kevin Love 
(klove at flmnh.ufl.edu) at iDigBio for more information and inquire about 
how to get more specific stats from our resource. I do not believe we 
ask about whether or not the collection has a public space or not 
(research vs research and education/outreach).

Hope this helps,
Deb


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