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Smithsonian
July 2007
Cristian Samper |
Life on the Web Over the next five years, the Encyclopedia of Life will generate a million Web pages, help digitize a large portion of scientific literature, generate educational materials for schools and universities, and contribute to new scientific analysis and synthesis.   |
Information Today
November 29, 2010 |
The Biodiversity Heritage Library Adds Records to WorldCat The Biodiversity Heritage Library is a consortium of major natural history museum libraries, botanical libraries, and research institutions organized to digitize, serve, and preserve the legacy literature of biodiversity. |
Science News
December 5, 2008
Edward O. Wilson |
Protect Biodiversity Hot Spots And The Rest Will Follow The tragedy unfolding in our ignorance, in our preoccupation with strictly physical environments, is that human action is destroying countless species and even ecosystems before we even know they existed. |
IDB America
December 2003
Roger Hamilton |
The biowealth of nations An eminent scientist argues that the information contained in biodiversity is one of a country's greatest assets. |
IDB America
May/Jun 2000 |
Ecological ground zero Seven of the world's most biodiverse---and threatened---areas are in Latin America and the Caribbean. What can be done to protect them? |
D-Lib
August 2007
Kubiszewski & Cleveland |
D-Lib Featured Collection July/August 2007: The Encyclopedia of Earth The Encyclopedia of Earth (EoE) seeks to become the world's largest and most authoritative electronic source of information about the environments of Earth and their interactions with society. |
Science News
October 28, 2006 |
Science Safari: Encyclopedia of Earth An online source of environmental information. |
Salon.com
October 28, 2002
Katharine Mieszkowski |
Data-mining life on earth Every blade of grass, every fish and fowl, slug and snail, has a place on the Web. |
Science News
March 8, 2008 |
One-Stop Shopping for Every Species The definitive place on the Internet to find information on every living species. |
Science News
May 26, 2007 |
Science Safari: Earth Portal Here is a comprehensive, free, and dynamic Web resource for timely science-based information about the environment. It features news, a forum, the Encyclopedia of Earth, and more. |
Salon.com
January 14, 2002
John Glassie |
E.O. Wilson The great scientist and conservationist explains the terrorism we insist on overlooking. And space colonies won't help, either... |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
A Better Case for Conservation Appearing hard on the heels of Lomborg's The Skeptical Environmentalist, Edward O. Wilson's The Future of Life has its work cut out for it. The end result is a refreshingly graceful synthesis of idealist vision and pragmatic solution... |
D-Lib
December 2000 |
In Brief Report on the Virtual Reference Desk Conference... NKOS Group Reviews Draft DTD for Thesauri... Digitizing Biological Collections... Nupedia.com: The Open Content Encyclopedia... NoVA - Non-Visual Access to the Digital Library... etc. |
Searcher
Nov/Dec 2003
David Mattison |
Information on the Seven Seas: International Ocean Science Web Resources (Part 2) A look at three areas of international cooperation in ocean science research: the physical and chemical ocean, meteorology, and marine life. |
Information Today
February 22, 2010 |
Gale Announces Enhancements to Grzimek's Animal Life Grzimek's Animal Life, the online resource covering more than 4,000 species of animals, will add new content, navigational tools, and social networking capabilities. |
Scientific American
December 2008
Linda Baker |
Turf Battles: Politics Interfere with Species Identification As nations view their flora and fauna as commodities, science suffers. |
Salon.com
April 22, 2000
Fred Branfman |
Living in shimmering disequilibrium The Pulitzer Prize-winning author calls for spiritualizing the environmental movement as Earth endures the greatest mass extinction in 65 million years... |
PC Magazine
February 1, 2006
Sebastian Rupley |
Peer Review The collaborative online encyclopedia Wikipedia has millions of entries in hundreds of languages. |
T.H.E. Journal
March 2001
Elizabeth Amberg |
Focus on Science Education Interactive learning and informative content are vital assets in any science classroom. Several software programs exist to help students visualize and analyze scientific information... |
Reason
November 2001
Sara Rimensnyder |
Cryptic Biodiversity By examining DNA, scientists have discovered new species of birds, reptiles, whales, and plants. Will this put more pressure on the Endangered Species Act? |
T.H.E. Journal
October 2000
Sabrina Tillman |
Focus on Reference The following Web resources and CD-ROMs acquaint students with an abundance of information at the click of a mouse... |
T.H.E. Journal
August 2000 |
FYI - The New Book of Popular Science Grolier Educational has launched The New Book of Popular Science Online, allowing students in grades 5 and up to explore scientific information and interactive activities.... |
Smithsonian
November 2005
Robert Wright |
35 Who Made a Difference: Edward O. Wilson Someday, Wilson believes, the cause-and-effect principles of psychology will rest solidly and specifically on those of biology, which will rest with equal security on principles of biochemistry and molecular biology, and so on down the line to particle physics. |
D-Lib
Sep/Oct 2015
Parilla & Blase |
The Value of Flexibility on Long-term Value of Grant Funded Projects The Field Book Project is an initiative to increase accessibility to field book content that documents natural history. |
Information Today
November 5, 2009 |
Credo Reference to Launch SAGE Reference Publisher Collection Nearly 70 SAGE titles will now be available through the Credo Reference platform. SAGE is an international publisher of journals, books, and electronic media for academic, educational, and professional markets. |
D-Lib
June 2002
Thomas Moritz |
Building the Biodiversity Commons Provision of free, universal access to biodiversity information is a practical imperative for the international conservation community -- this goal should be accomplished by promotion of the Public Domain and by development of a sustainable Biodiversity Information Commons. |
T.H.E. Journal
September 2000 |
Late Breaks - N2H2, Inc. N2H2, Inc. extends its offer of the Microsoft Encarta Online Deluxe Encyclopedia without charge to new and current Bess Internet Filtering customers for the 2000-01 academic year. |
Entrepreneur
June 2007
Sara Wilson |
Power to the People For the man who started Wikipedia, community control means endless opportunity. |
