Biodiversity science: PLoS biodiversity hub - forward thinking
The PLoS Biodversity hub has been around for almost a year now, bringing together open access publications. A new paper from Mindell et al. on PLoS is essential reading on the potential for integration of many biodiversity resources with open access research. Not least, a good list of intiatives, which reads:..../ more
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aggregated specimen data:
interoperability among datasets and databases:
taxonomic literature:
taxonomic names:
molecular sequence data:
images:
phylogenetic relationships:
natural history:
conservation status of species:
and ecological and evolutionary datasetsv http://datadryad.org/