Botany

• PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov/). Produced by the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, the PLANTS Database is a single source of standardized information about plants. This database focuses on vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories. The PLANTS Database includes names, checklists, automated tools, identification information, species abstracts, distributional data, crop information, plant symbols, plant growth data, plant materials information, plant links, references, and other plant information.

• International Plant Names Index (http://www.ipni.org/). The International Plant Names Index (IPNI) is a database of the names and associated basic bibliographical details of all seed plants. Its goal is to eliminate the need for repeated reference to primary sources for basic bibliographic information about plant names. The data are freely available and are gradually being standardized and checked. IPNI is the product of a collaboration between The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, The Harvard University Herbaria, and the Australian National Herbarium.

• Internet Directory for Botany (http://www.botany.net/IDB/). The Internet Directory of Botany is an index to botanical information available on the Internet, compiled by Anthony R. Brach (Harvard University Herbarium, Cambridge / Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, USA), Raino Lampinen (Botanical Museum, Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki, Finland), Shunguo Liu (SHL Systemhouse, Edmonton, Canada) and Keith McCree (Oakridge, Oregon).

• Scott's Botanical Index (http://www.ou.edu/cas/botany-micro/bot-linx/subject/). University of Oklahoma professor Scott Russell has developed this excellent index of botany web resources. Sites are indexed by subject and by presentation, such as images, reference data, listservs, databases, and multimedia sites.

• Plant Image Gallery (http://www.plant-pictures.com/). This gallery includes over 7,000 images of plants from around the world. Images are organized by location and family name.

• Botanical Society of America Online Image Collection (http://images.botany.org/). Over 800 botanical images in 14 collections are provided for instructional use. Subjects such as plant geography, plant morphology, economic botany, paleobotany, and plant anatomy are covered.

• Forest History Society (http://www.lib.duke.edu/forest/). Affiliated with Duke University, this site "links the past to the future by identifying, collecting, preserving, interpreting, and disseminating information on the history of interactions between people, forests, and their related resources - timber, water, soil, forage, fish and wildlife, recreation, and scenic or spiritual values. The focus is from a North American perspective within a global context."

• Forestry AgNIC (http://forestry.lib.umn.edu/agnic/). Maintained by the Foresty Library at the University of Minnesota, this site provides links to reference resources, full text resources, organizations and associations, government agencies, conferences and jobs among numerous other forestry related links.

• Index Herbariorum (http://sweetgum.nybg.org/ih/). Index Herbariorum, a joint project of the International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT) and the New York Botanical Garden (NYBG), is a detailed directory of 3000+ public herbaria of the world and the 8800+ staff members associated with them.

• Transgenic Crops: An Introduction and Resource Guide (http://www.colostate.edu/programs/lifesciences/TransgenicCrops/). This Web site originating from Colorado State University provides an excellent summary of the work being done on transgenic crops and offers many useful linkages to other resources on the technology and issues surrounding transgenic crops. It will serve as a very useful resource guide for anyone interested in the production and utilization of genetically modified organisms (GMOs).

• Plant Trivia Timeline (http://www.huntington.org/BotanicalDiv/Timeline.html). The Timeline gives world history from the viewpoint of a botanist. It is the story of plant discovery and use, and addresses the roles of plants in human civilization. It is provided by the Huntington Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California.

To report broken links, suggest new links, or simply request assistance, please contact Jean Cook (jcook@westga.edu), Library Liaison to the Biology Department.