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21.06.2010 · Another state bibliography integrated: Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

After vifabio already enhanced the findability of biogeographical information on regions of Germany with the Hessian Bibliography, the biological titles from the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Bibliography have been integrated into the virtual catalogue. You can find the Bibliography under "German regional bibliographies" (on the right of the Advanced Search): check the box to include the Bibliography in your search.
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14.06.2010 · Now vifabio provides links to 40,000+ digitised books from BHL

By now, more than 40,000 digitised books with thirty million pages of fundamental taxonomical literature are available in the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL). Many titles from BHL's large pool have been integrated with other resources in vifabio's Virtual Catalogue since 2009, but the most recent additions in BHL have been missing. Now, we finished a major update in order to enable you to find those recent titles as well.
» Example hits: afri* flora
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12.05.2010 · Max Planck Institute for Ornithology new in vifabio

The library of the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology has been integrated into the Virtual Catalogue. The collection includes topics like behavioural neurobiology, behavioural ecology and evolutionary genetics with a focus on birds. The recently integrated collection of the Ornithological Station Radolfzell has the main focus on bird ringing, bird migration and the biology of birds. You will find the MPI for Ornithology under the heading "Library catalogues" (on the righthand side of the search form); check the box to include it in your search.
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03.05.2010 · Catalogue of the Libraries at the Natural History Museum, Vienna, now in vifabio

The catalogue of Libraries at the Natural History Museum in Vienna is integrated, from now on, in vifabio's metasearch. Library holdings arose from Habsburg collections from the 18th century and currently contain approximately 200,000 titles, thereof 50,000 titles published before 1900.
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16.02.2010 · E-journals with information for authors

A link to the SHERPA list (= Securing a Hybrid Environment for Research Preservation and Access) has been integrated into the detailed view of each E-journal. Clicking the link "SHERPA" () will produce information about publisher copyright and self-archiving policies for all E-journals comprised in SHERPA.
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18.01.2010 · Internet sources for the International Year of Biodiversity

The United Nations declared 2010 to be the International Year of Biodiversity. vifabio has collected the most important Internet sources on this subject together: explore biodiversity online with vifabio!
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14.12.2009 · New discoveries made possible with links in the Internet Guide

Browsing resources in a particular topic with the Internet Guide is now easier: the link "» find similar sources!", found in the detailed view of each hit under "Subject", leads to further hits that are similar to the first. There are also further possibilities to browse by topic under the Subject tab.
» Example hits
» Browsing

2009-11-02 · AnimalBase integrated into vifabio’s search

From now on, with the integration of AnimalBase's title data, this important digitization project for early zoological literature is accessible via vifabio's Virtual Catalogue.
The project's objective is to provide free access particularly to those important publications where zoological names were originally established.
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2009-10-20 · New acquisitions lists of ThULB, Jena

The acquisitions lists of the biological catalogue of the Thuringian University and State Library Jena (ThULB) are also available now.
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2009-10-13 · Biological catalogue Jena, including herbarium library, now in vifabio

The biological catalogue of the Thuringian University and State Library Jena (ThULB) is integrated, from now on, in vifabio's metasearch. The library's collections include the estates of several famous biologists who lectured and worked in Jena, like the zoologist and evolutionary biologist Ernst Haeckel, the anatomist and evolutionary biologist Dietrich Starck, the botanist Carl Haussknecht, the bryologist Riclef Grolle and others. Especially the ThULB’s section library Herbarium Haussknecht offers an extraordinarily comprehensive selection of botanical literature, focusing on systematic botany and plant geography.
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2009-09-29 · Custom-made news about the latest journal articles

With our new service myCCBio, you can regularly receive tables of contents for newly published journal issues as e-mails, for free. You can choose as many as you like from the journal titles included in our Catalogue of articles (OLC) [Info]. The offering is not restricted to journal titles of a certain publisher, rather it provides a very large pool of important biological journals (ca. 1500 titles in total). The designation myCCBio stands for my Current Contents Biology; the service has been set up in cooperation with HeBIS.
» myCCBio-Start

2009-07-02 · Easily check a journal's table of contents

Starting from an article in the database OLC clicking the link "Table of contents for this issue" the TOC of the corresponding journal can be reached easily. "All articles in this journal” links to a list of all articles of this journal documented in the database OLC.
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2009-06-19 · Biological Abstracts & Zoological Record integrated into vifabio’s search

The nationally licensed data from Biological Abstracts (up to 2004) and the Zoological Record (up to 2007) are now searchable in the Virtual Catalogue. With a single query, searches can be simultaneously carried out in Biological Abstracts, in the Zoological Record, and in all other already incorporated data sources. Access is available to all academic institutions in Germany
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» To the Virtual Catalogue

2009-06-09 · Catalogue of articles (OLC) expanded significantly

Data on about 800,000 journal articles published before 1998 have been added to the Catalogue of articles (OLC) which is part of vifabio's Virtual Catalogue. Now 2.8 million articles from the most important journals in biology can be found by searching vifabio.
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2009-05-06 · Custom-made link collections with myBioLinks

myBioLinks allows seamless integration of hyperlink lists from vifabio's Internet Guide into your own web pages. We care for the collection being up-to-date. You have several configuration options, regarding choice of topics, language of output, provision of abstracts and so on.
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2009-03-11 · New flyer

A new flyer - now for the first time in English language too - presenting vifabio’s offers is available here for download.
» vifabio flyer (230KB)

2009-02-18 · New acquisitions lists

The acquisitions lists of Marine fisheries SUB Hamburg are also available now.
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2009-02-03 · Biodiversity Heritage Library integrated into vifabio’s search

From now on, with the import of BHL's title data, the world's most important digitization project for biological literature is accessible via vifabio's Virtual Catalogue. BHL is a group of ten major natural history museum libraries, botanical libraries, and research institutions. They have over 10 million pages of key taxonomic literature available on the web.
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2009-01-20 · Web resources concerning Darwin and evolutionary biology

In 2009 the two hundredth birthday of Charles Darwin, the founder of evolutionary biology, is celebrated. vifabio has compiled the most important web resources and other information (sorry, only in German)
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2008-11-25 · Hessische Bibliographie

The biological segment of the Hessische Bibliographie (Hessian Bibliography) has been integrated into the Virtual Catalogue, providing data on publications related to this region from 1977 onwards. In the future, more regional bibliographies shall follow in order to improve retrievability of the biogeographical literature with regional focus on parts of Germany. You will find the Hessische Bibliographie under the heading “German regional bibliographies” (on the righthand side of the search form); check the box to include it in your search.
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2008-11-03 · Marine Fisheries SUB Hamburg

The catalogue of the special subject collection "Marine and Coastal Fisheries" of the State and University Library Hamburg (SUB Hamburg) has been integrated into the Virtual Catalogue; including data of scientific publications about fisheries, production of fish and other useful marine and coastal organisms.
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2008-10-21 · New browser plug-in

... to integrate BioWebSeach in your browser toolbar is available.
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2008-10-01 · BioWebSearch is online

The benefit of vifabio`s Internet Guide - quality checked internet sites with subject indexing - combined with a fulltext search within the contents of sites, this is BioWebSearch
Nature of the year or special questions of biochemistry: with this tool relevant websites are found more easily in the pool of vifabio’s Internet Guide. BioWebSearch includes 160.000 sites und will be updated regularly.
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2008-09-02 · New flyer

A new flyer (sorry, only in German) presenting vifabio’s offers is available here for download.
» vifabio flyer (420 KB)

2008-06-26 · BioLIS integrated into vifabio’s search

With BioLIS, another article database has been integrated into the Virtual Catalogue. BioLIS covers journal articles published in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, complementing Biological Abstracts with regional literature not covered therein.
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2008-06-19 · Short URL

From now on datasets of vifabio’s Internet Guide are accessible by short and unique URL;
for example: http://www.vifabio.de/iqBio/detail/en/1454

2008-03-20 · PubMed integrated in vifabio’s search

PubMed database has been integrated in the Virtual Catalogue; including data of articles of about 4600 biomedical journals. If possible data of articles link to the Electronic Journal Library (EZB) to facilitate access to full texts.
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2008-02-29 · Ordering of literature improved

In the detailed view of many of the books retrieved by searching vifabio’s Virtual Catalogue a link to subito, a document delivery service, has now been integrated.

A link to ZDB ("Zeitschriftendatenbank", the world’s largest specialised database for serial titles) and a link to help have been added on the detailed view of journal articles – links to Electronic Journals Library (EZB) and subito had already been implemented. The ZDB informs the user about the libraries which have holdings of the printed journal and facilitates inter-library loan.

2008-02-15 · New flyer

A new flyer (sorry, only in German) presenting vifabio’s offers is available here for download.
» vifabio flyer (230 KB)

2008-02-13 · New gateway to databases

From now on, any user who is an inhabitant of Germany and who isn't pursuing commercial interests may search the latest updates of Biological Abstracts and Zoological Record for biological literature. This is made possible through our new pay-per-use gateway in vifabio.
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2007-09-07 · Search entry Virtual Catalogue

In order to assist the integration of vifabio`s Virtual Catalogue search in your website we offer the HTML-code of the search box. The equivalent for internet guide has been established already.
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A plug-in to integrate vifabio’s search in your browser toolbar is offered too.
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2007-09-03 · New flyer

A new flyer (sorry, only in German) presenting vifabio’s offers is available here for download.
» vifabio flyer (205 KB)

2007-08-31 · Internet resources

vifabio’s Internet Guide with currently 1100 quality-checked links to biological internet resources including 420 databases has been integrated into the Virtual Catalogue.
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2007-06-26 · New acquisitions lists

In addition to the new acquisitions lists of the library Johann Christian Senckenberg the lists of Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum (BGBM) Berlin-Dahlem, Freie Universität Berlin and Leibniz-Institut für Pflanzengenetik Kulturpflanzenforschung (IPK), Gatersleben, are also available now. Moreover the list of the 20 most recently added books in BioLib is shown.
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2007-05-18 · Online Contents

Data of about 1.65 million biological articles of 1895 biological journals as from 1998 have been integrated in the Virtual Catalogue. Most of the articles link to document delivery service subito (with costs) and the Electronic Journal Library (EZB) to provide comfortable access to full texts.
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2007-03-30 · vifabio is Online!

The Virtual Library of Biology has been online since the 30th of March 2007 and provides central access to biological literature and information – for scientists and students, but also for all interested in biology.

Januar2007-- · Databases

Now access via National Licences to databases:

• Biological Abstracts Archive 1926-1968
  National Licenses
• Zoological Record 1864-2006
  National Licenses