The Library of the "Deutsches Museum" in Munich is presenting information and illustrations on selected historical books, most of them belonging to the category "Libri Rari". [Editorial staff vifabio]
The Duchess Anna Amalia Library provides quick access to the digital versions of particular rare, exceptional or heavily-used works from its historical collection with “Monographien Digital”. In general, all components of a work are digitised, from the book cover to individual pages and contents. Although the majority of the HAAB’s digitised collections are more relevant to the humanities, there are still many biological works available. Currently, the biological component can only be filtered out indirectly; the Internet Guide contains a link to a list of titles that contain the partial keywords “botan”, “plant” and “zool”. ... [Information of the supplier, translated and modified]
The bibliographic project, Bibliography of Books Printed in the German Speaking Countries from 1601 to 1700 (VD17), sets out to establish a German National Bibliography of 17th-century imprints. All German titles and all titles which are printed or published in the former German-speaking countries will be catalogued. Broadsheets are listed, musica practica (notations) and maps are excluded. As the main libraries responsible for the project the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Berlin State Library), the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München (Bavarian State Library Munich) and the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel (Duke August Library Wolfenbüttel) have guaranteed the continuation of the database since funding by the DFG (German Research Society) expired in 2007. The cataloguing is done book-in-hand. In order to improve bibliographic information and facilitate the identification of different editions cataloguing records are linked to digitized images of keypages, when possible they are linked to completely digitized books. ... [Information of the supplier]
GEODOK is a database which contains more than 102.000 entries concerning geographically related literature since 1950 (incl. biogeography). It provides the bibliographical data for scientific articles (primarily in German, English and French) indexed by keywords. GEODOK is a product of the Department of Geography of Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU). ... [Information of the supplier, modified]
Der Naturwissenschaftliche Verein Osnabrück (NVO) wurde 1870 gegründet. Zu den Zielen gehörten u.a.: (a) Anlegen einer wissenschaftlichen Belegsammlung aus dem Großraum Osnabrück, (b) Forschung auf dem Gebiet der Geologie und Biologie im heimatlichen Bereich, (c) Darstellung der Forschungsergebnisse, Öffentlichkeitsarbeit, Aufbau und Betreuen einer Schausammlung. 1988 wurde die Sammlung im Museum am Schölerberg zeitgerecht neu präsentiert. Heute hat der Verein rund 350 Mitglieder. ... [Information des Anbieters]
Die Webpräsenz der Biologischen Station bietet vielfältige, häufig aktualisierte Informationen zu naturkundlichen Themen (inklusive Flora und Fauna) sowie zum Naturschutz in ihrem Arbeitsgebiet, welches die Städte Duisburg, Mühlheim und Oberhausen einschließt. Die Station organisiert Maßnahmen zu Naturschutz und Landschaftspflege, führt Veranstaltungen und Exkursionen für Interessierte durch und gibt Veröffentlichungen heraus. Aktuelle Fundmeldungen für Pflanzen, Pilze und Tiere können in eine Datenbank eingespeist bzw. abgerufen werden. ... [Redaktion vifabio]
The German network for long term ecological research is intended to be a platform for communication, documentation and collaboration of scientists in long-term, system-oriented and interdisciplinary environmental research in Germany. LTER-D is a member in the international umbrella organisation of LTER (ILTER, www.ilternet.edu). It is an open network, which defines itself exclusively by the commitment of the members to their shared goals. Long-term approaches are particularly important in investigations of environmental changes, because such changes usually occur only gradually and with larger temporal fluctuations overlying the trend. Under such circumstances, only an adequately long observation period can be a sound basis to secure results and to support prognoses. The German LTER is still in the starting phase. The first workshop for mutual information and orientation was held in Duderstadt, central Germany, 24-26 March 2004. At this meeting, scientists from the institutions in Germany, which perform long-term ecological research in all relevant ecosystem types from the high mountains to the Wadden Sea, presented their concepts and results. The diversity, quality and potential of German LTER showed up clearly, and in future it will be further augmented by integrating LTER-D into the global ILTER-process. ... [Information of the supplier]
In a research project of the Helmholz Centre for Cultural Technology that extended over many years, parts of the Medical History Collection, the Portrait Collection, as well as the outstanding graphics of the University Library, all the exhibits of the large exhibition “Theatrum naturae et artis. Wunderkammern des Wissens" („Theatrum naturae et artis. Wonder Cabinet of Knowledge”), parts of the zoological teaching collection, important graphics from the Natural History Museum, and the complete sound archive for the “Cabinet of Knowledge” were systematically registered and digitised. Digital photos and scans, and sound files are the placeholders for the items of the collection in the examples database thus formed, and enable the study of rare or endangered individual items. The nucleus is, however, the transdisciplinary keyword system developed by the participating scientists. It is so arranged that classification characteristics can always be adapted to the current scientific standard without disturbing the data for the item. The databank presented here does not arrogate in any way the representation of the integrated collections and institutions, but only proposes suggestions for the use and presentation of the collection holdings. ... [Information of the supplier, translated]
ZOBODAT (Zoological Botanical Database, formerly ZOODAT) is a digitally organised biogeographical database including analysis, documentation and communication facilities. Founded by Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ernst Rudolf Reichl in 1972, ZOBODAT was taken over by the province of Upper Austria in 1999 and is located at the Biology Centre of the Upper Austrian Provincial Museums. The database contains data on the distribution of animal and plant species and diverse supporting digital libraries. Traditionally most of the data refers to insects and geographically to Austria. However, ZOBODAT can be used for all organism groups and worldwide. At this time some Biology Centre data records that already exist in digital form are not yet completely integrated into ZOBODAT. This applies to part of the entomology collection and part of the invertebrate collection not including insects. As newly set goals besides the traditional representation of distributions on maps, user-friendly analysis possibilities were developed, making rapid inquiries of information on species, geographical areas and area-specific nature protection questions possible. Gradated user access makes differentiated data security possible. ZOBODAT is to be expanded into a user-friendly information system for scientists, nature protection authorities and the public. ... [Information of the supplier]