[NHCOLL-L:5399] JSTOR Plant Science

[Sweeney, Patrick]

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
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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

SHIPPING ADDRESS:
Yale University Herbarium
Peabody Museum of Natural History
Yale University
170-210 Whitney Avenue
New Haven, CT 06511

email: patrick.sweeney at yale.edu
phone: 203.432.3537
FAX: 203.432.7907