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]
RERO DOC is the digital library of RERO, the Library Network of Western Switzerland. It has been created to promote, preserve and provide public access to the scholarly literature produced be the institutions participating to the project (electronic theses, dissertations and e-prints) as well as to the digitalized collections of RERO libraries. In the framework of the Open Access initiative it provides a platform for researchers in member universities to self-archive their publications. ... [Information of the supplier]
Discover Life provides free on-line tools to identify species, share ways to teach and study nature's wonders, report findings, build maps, process images, and contribute to and learn from an encyclopedia of life that now contains 278,487 species. [Information of the supplier]
The Web includes an enormous wealth of data, references, and research on a wide variety of biological disciplines. The NBII serves as a gateway to these resources, selecting, annotating, and organizing them according to topic and discipline for ease of discovery and access by NBII users. [Information of the supplier]
This exhibit provides a survey of that biodiversity through time, focusing on major lineages of organisms. Many of these lineages have gone extinct or currently exist at a much lower diversity than in the past, so there may be large exhibits on groups of organisms that are unfamiliar to you. They are featured because they play an important role in the history of life on Earth. ... [Information of the supplier]
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]
Since 2005, selected historical books have been made available electronically in a programme for the digitisation of cultural works at the University of Strasbourg (Université de Strasbourg). The resulting library draws from a number of disciplines, including medical and cosmological works as well as herbal books from the 16th and 17th centuries. The number of biological titles is just under 300 (as of end 2009). Digitised items can be accessed by users in a viewer, but cannot be downloaded. It is possible to order on CD-ROM, at a cost. ... [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]
In the West, as a result of the explorations of every corner of the globe undertaken from the latter half of the 18th century, organisms, unknown until then, and novel specimens were brought in, and an enormous amount of information was collected. All this was collated by figures such as Buffon, the author of "Natural History, general and specific", and Linnaeus, who founded the "binomial nomenclature", which is the basis of the formal naming system used today. These works became known even among ordinary citizens of the day and also led to an extraordinary boom in the field. Here you can see the "Pinax Theatri Botanici," a general survey of plants by Gaspard Bauhin who distinguished genuses and species before Linnaeus; the "Elements de botanique ou methode pour connaitre les plantes" of Tournefort, whose use of many illustrations made it possible even for beginners to distinguish between and to classify plants; and the "Flora Japonica" and "Fauna Japonica" of Siebold who studied Japanese flora and fauna using tens of thousands of specimens. In the future it is planned to make a collection of representative items from available the natural history materials in the possession of the Kyoto University, including celebrated works of people such as Linnaeus, Buffon, and Youan Udagawa and Keisuke Ito, who introduced the Western study of natural history to Japan. ... [Information of the supplier]
