Training resources

• Online catalogue of training resources

e-Library topics

• Taxonomy databases
• Networks, Organisations , Projects and Societies
• Software
• Identification keys
• Training manuals

Taxonomy databases

GBIF Data Portal - Access millions of data records shared via the GBIF network. Explore species, countries and datasets: http://data.gbif.org/welcome.htm

Taxonomy and online databases: http://www.eti.uva.nl/tools/links/taxonomy.php

• World Biodiversity Database - The WBD currently consists of 21 separate projects, each with its own interface and feature set. These projects cover a total of 25493 unique taxa, plus an additional 4149 synonyms/ http://www.eti.uva.nl/tools/wbd.php

Additional links to databases:

• Catalogue of Life: http://www.catalogueoflife.org/
• Euro+Med Plantbase (E+M): http://www.emplantbase.org/home.html
• European Register of Marine Species (ERMS): http://www.marbef.org/data/erms.php
• Encyclopedia of Life: http://www.eol.org/
• Espèces de Belgique/Belgische soortenlijst : http://www.species.be
• Fauna Europaea’s other relevant on-line databases within the Kingdom Animalia: http://www.faunaeur.org/external_databases.php
• SoortenBank.nl: http://www.soortenbank.nl/
• World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS): www.marinespecies.org

Networks, Organisations, Projects and Societies

• A Long-Term Biodiversity, Ecosystem and Awareness Research Network: http://www.alter-net.info/
• Biodiversity Information Networks Database: http://www.tdwg.org/biodiv-networks/networks-database/
• Biodiversity Information Projects of the World: http://www.tdwg.org/biodiv-projects/projects-database/
• Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) is an international not-for-profit group that develops standards and protocols for sharing biodiversity data: http://www.tdwg.org/
• Biodiversity links: http://www.eti.uva.nl/tools/links/biodiversity.php
• Creating a taxonomic e-science (CATE): http://www.cate-project.org/
• Comisión Nacional para el conocimiento y uso de la Biodiversidad (CONABIO): http://www.conabio.gob.mx/
• Consortium for the Barcode of life (CBoL): http://www.barcoding.si.edu/
• Convention on Biological Diversity: http://www.biodiv.org/default.shtml
• Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES): http://www.cites.org/
• European Consortium for the Barcode of Life (ECBoL): http://www.ecbol.org/
• European Network of Palm Scientists (EUNOPS): http://eunops.org/
• European Platform for Biodiversity Research Strategy: http://www.epbrs.org/
• European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI):: http://cordis.europa.eu/esfri/
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF): http://www.gbif.org/
• Global Environment Facility (GEF): http://www.gefweb.org/
• Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network (GEO-BON): http://www.earthobservations.org/geobon.shtml
• International Barcode of Life (iBOL): http://www.ibolproject.org/home.html
• International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature: http://www.iczn.org/
• International Society of Arachnology: http://www.arachnology.org/
• LifeWatch: e-science and technology infrastructure for biodiversity data and observatories: http://www.lifewatch.eu/
• Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning: http://www.marbef.org/
• National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
• National Geographic Society: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/research/
• Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections: http://www.spnhc.org/
• Society of Systematic Biologists: http://systbiol.org/
• Species Survival Commission, IUCN: http://www.iucn.org/themes/ssc/
• Systematics Association: http://www.systass.org/
• Willi Hennig Society: http://www.cladistics.org/
• World Conservation Union (IUCN): http://www.iucn.org/
• World Taxonomist Database - You can search for a person, an institute, a specific country, a taxonomic group, etc.: http://www.eti.uva.nl/tools/wtd.php
• World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF): http://www.panda.org/index.cfm; http://www.worldwildlife.org 

Software

Biodiversity and Biological Collections Software

• BIOTA: The Biodiversity Database Manager: http://viceroy.eeb.uconn.edu/biota
• DeltaAccess: http://www.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/Projects/DeltaAccess/
• DELTA/Intkey: http://delta-intkey.com/
• EDIT Biodiversity Service & Application Tracker - Collection of links to software, tools and resources useful to taxonomists: http://www.bdtracker.net/
• EDIT Platform Cybergate - The EDIT Platform for Cybertaxonomy is a collection of tools and services which together cover all aspects of the taxonomic workflow: taxonomic editing; publishing of edited data; data storage and exchange; collections and specimens; descriptions; fieldwork; literature; and geography: http://dev.e-taxonomy.eu/platform/
• EndNote: http://www.endnote.com/
• Freezerworks, Dataworks Development, Inc.: http://www.freezerworks.com/
• Iowa State Entomology Index of Software Internet Resources: http://www.ent.iastate.edu/list/directory/104/vid/4
• LucID 3: http://www.lucidcentral.com/
• Papyrus: http://www.researchsoftwaredesign.com/
• Platypus: http://www.deh.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/software/platyp...
• TDWG Subgroup on Biological Collection Data - Software for Biological Collection Management: http://www.bgbm.org/TDWG/acc/Software.htm

Morphology and Imaging Hardware and Software

• Auto-montage: http://www.syncroscopy.com/syncroscopy/automontageshort.asp
• CombineZ5: http://www.hadleyweb.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/CZ5/combinez5.htm
• Digital Morphology: http://digimorph.org/
• HeliconFocus: http://helicon.com.ua/heliconfocus/
• Microptics: http://www.microptics-usa.com/
• Morphometrics at SUNY Stony Brook: http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/morph/
• Syncroscopy: http://www.syncroscopy.com/syncroscopy/

 
Phylogenetics Software

• Evolutionary Biology Group, University of Oxford, Department of Zoology: http://evolve.zps.ox.ac.uk/
• Felsenstein’s list of Phylogeny Programs: http://evolution.genetics.washington.edu/phylip/software.html
• Page’s software programs: http://taxonomy.zoology.gla.ac.uk/software/index.html
• Page’s software list: http://taxonomy.zoology.gla.ac.uk/software/software.html
• POY (Phylogeny Reconstruction via Optimization of DNA and other Data): http://research.amnh.org/scicomp/projects/poy.php
• Winclada/Nona/TNT: http://www.cladistics.com/

Identification keys

• Key to nature:  www.keytonature.eu
  http://dbiodbs.units.it/dryades/tools.html

• Discover Life ID guides: http://www.discoverlife.org/mp/20q

Training manuals

GBIF manuals: http://www.gbif.org/participation/training/resources/gbif-training-manuals/

• Digitisation of Natural History Collections Data
• A practical hands-on tutorial
• Uses of Primary Species-Occurrence Data
• Initiating a Collection Digitisation Project
• Principles of Data Quality
• Principles and Methods of Data Cleaning
• Biogeomancer, Guide to Best Practices in Georeferencing
• Guide to Best Practices for Generalising Sensitive Species Occurrence Data