This is a mirror page of The Internet Directory for Botany: Subject Category List
copied on May 19, 1996.

Internet Directory for Botany - Subject Category List

Latest changes 16 May, 1996

This botanical link collection is now one branch of Lampinen, R., S. Liu, & A. R. Brach. (1996-). The Internet Directory of Botany. - [http://meena.cc.uregina.ca/~liushus/bio/idb.html]. The Internet Directory for Botany consists of two parts:

Brach, A. R. & S. Liu. (1996-). The Internet Directory for Botany: Alphabetical List. - [http://meena.cc.uregina.ca/~liushus/bio/botany.html].
- Finnish Mirror, Helsinki / Italian mirror of the Finnish Mirror
- French Mirror, Lyon.

Lampinen, R. (1996-). The Internet Directory for Botany: Subject Category List. - [http://www.helsinki.fi/kmus/botmenu.html].
- Canadian Mirror, maintained by Shunguo Liu <liushus@leroy.cc.uregina.ca>, University of Regina.
- Italian mirror, in Cagliari, Sardinia, maintained by Video Online.
- Russian Mirror, maintained by Sergey Sukhov <svs@fadr.msu.ru> in the Herbarium of the Moscow State University (MW).
- South African Mirror of the Internet Directory for Botany - Subject Category List, maintained by Matt Buys <matt@land.sun.ac.za>, Department of Botany, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa.
- US Mirror, maintained by Kevin Depew <kdepew@allware.com> in Lanham, Maryland, USA.

The Internet Directory for Botany - Subject Category List (before March 1996 A Collection of Botany Related URLs) is a collection of more than 2,000 botanical links which are divided into 18 files by subject (note that some links appear in more than one file). It is maintained by Raino Lampinen (Raino.Lampinen@Helsinki.Fi, Raino Lampinen's home page), a botanist in the Botanical Museum, Finnish Museum of Natural History (H), in the University of Helsinki. The list is updated about once a week.

The Internet Directory for Botany - Alphabetical List (before March 1996 List of WWW Sites of Interest to Botanists), is maintained by Shunguo Liu (G. F. Ledingham Herbarium, University of Regina, Canada) and compiled by Anthony R. Brach (Harvard University Herbarium/Missouri Botanical Garden, USA). Finnish Mirror of the Alphabetical List is kept by me in Helsinki. For other botanical/biological link lists, see my list of link collections and resource guides.

In addition to the 18 pages containing the links, there are four other pages: this main menu page, a very long (over 400 kB) page with all the links, a page indicating the latest additions, and a form to send comments, corrections or additions. At the end of each page there is also a list of the other pages.

ARBORETA AND BOTANICAL GARDENS, sorted by country.
BOTANICAL SOCIETIES, INTERNATIONAL BOTANICAL ORGANIZATIONS (Subheading "Societies" divided further into "Garden Plants, Horticulture - Plant Pathology - Other")
BIOLOGISTS' ADDRESSES. Address lists, address searching tools.
BOTANICAL MUSEUMS, HERBARIA, NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUMS, sorted by continent and country.
CHECKLISTS AND FLORAS, TAXONOMICAL DATABASES, VEGETATION. Subheadings: General - Global - Africa - Asia - Australia & New Zealand - Europe - N America - Latin America.
CONSERVATION AND THREATENED PLANTS, sorted geographically.
ECONOMIC BOTANY, ETHNOBOTANY. Crops - Ethnobotany- Herbal Medicine - Plant Pathology - Poisons - Weeds.
GARDENING. Horticultural links.
IMAGES
JOURNALS, BOOKS, LITERATURE DATABASES, PUBLISHERS
LINK COLLECTIONS, RESOURCE GUIDES
LISTSERVERS AND NEWSGROUPS
LOWER PLANTS AND FUNGI: Algae - Bryophytes - Fungi.
OTHER RESOURCES: Plant Genetics - Standards - Other.
PALEOBOTANY, PALYNOLOGY, POLLEN
SOFTWARE
UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENTS, OTHER INSTITUTES, sorted by continent and country.
VASCULAR PLANT FAMILIES

Searching

You can search the list with HTGREP, using single or many words. Please provide a boolean keyword expression or a Perl regular expression as a search pattern. HTGREP searches a modified version of the page with all links, and it tries to find the search string from the text and the url addresses. HTGREP displays the paragraphs matching the query as a new WWW page. At the top of that page there is also a form to enter a new search string.

Examples

The search query can either be one or more words (a simple search) separated by spaces, or a boolean expression. By default, all searches are performed in a case insensitive manner, for example, results for

Finland, FINLAND, finland, FiNlAnD

are similar. If necessary, it is possible to configure htgrep to understand case sensitive queries.

Simple Searches

Enter a single word to find any search record that contains the exact whole word entered. To find parts of words, use an asterisk (*) to represent missing parts of the word.

australia -- entries with the word Australia (but not Australian or Australasian, etc.)
canada herbarium -- entries with both of these words somewhere in the entry (not necessarily next to each other); you can enter also more than two words
austral* -- entries with words beginning "austral" -- (e.g., Australia, Australian, Australasian, australis). You can use this feature to find links to, for instance, web sites in a certain country or other area (by giving search terms like Canad*, German*, Norw*, Russia*, Swed*, etc.).
*ceae -- entries with words ending in "ceae" (ie., family names).

Boolean Searches

For more control over the search query, you can use a boolean expression using operators such as AND, OR, NOT or brackets ().

hemerocalli* or daylil* -- entries with at least one of these strings (Hemerocallis, Hemerocallidaceae, daylily, daylilies).
canada and herbarium -- entries with both of these words (this is the same as the simple query "canada herbarium")
canada not herbarium -- entries with the word "canada" and without "herbarium"
canada and (herbarium or museum) -- entries with "canada" and at least one of the words "herbarium" and "museum"
canada and herbarium or museum -- entries with both the words "canada" and "herbarium" and also all the numerous other entries with the word "museum"
(herbarium or museum) not canada -- entries with the word herbarium or museum but without canada

Perl Regular Expressions

If you want to use a a Perl regular expression rather than a simple or boolean search, make sure you use a \char contruct (eg \w or \s). Any search query which contains a backslash will be treated as a perl regular expression.

Portal to selected search engines:

Altavista

InfoSeek Net Search

Lycos Search

  Query:      
Search Options:    
Display Options:

WebCrawler

Help · Facts · No-forms Search

Yahoo

You can also use a number of other searching tools or subject catalogs - for instance:

CUSI Services, a single form to search a large number of different WWW search engines.
DejaNews Research Service, to search Usenet.
Excite Netsearch
Galaxy (search for "Botany")
GNN (Global Network Navigator) - The Whole Internet Catalog, there are some links under topics Gardening and Biology
JumpStation
Kolumbus Kompassi. A multithreaded query page from Finland. This is an interface to simultaneously search engines built by various universities and other institutions. Guide in English.
The Mother-of-all BBS (look for Biological Sciences)
Open Text
WWWW - the WORLD WIDE WEB WORM
VERONICA, to search gopher directory titles.
The WWW Power Index: Internet Search Tools
W3 Search Engines is a collection of search facilities in Internet.

Tip: if your searches with these or other internet search engines are unsuccessful, you can save your queries using the URL-minder, or monitor the query with SmartMarks - when something comes up you will then get a mail message (URL-Minder) or an update flag will appear in SmartMarks.

There are many more tools for looking data and for adding your page to searchable databases - take a look at Yahoo - Computers and Internet:Internet:World Wide Web:Searching the Web.

About these pages

I started collecting links to botanical information on the Internet in Autumn 1993 (first as a personal bookmark list of botanical gopher sites, since March 1994 also www sites), and made my list available via WWW in December 1994. The list was originally in alphabetical order but as the number of sites grew I changed it into the present form. I have picked most of the sites by following the links at other sites, from newsgroup messages and mailing lists (mostly from TAXACOM), and by search engines like InfoSeek, Lycos and WebCrawler. Feel free to send me suggestions of new links.

The links worked when I added them to my list, but I have not enough time to regularly follow whether they still do, and what new information the sites appearing in my list have put to the web. There may be broken links in my list, and the descriptions (mostly directly copied from the sites) may be now out-of-date. Thus, corrections, comments and additions are welcome - please help me keep these data up-to-date!

All the links were last checked in January 1996. On 16 May, 1996, there were altogether 2,079 links.

Changes to the list are listed on a separate page. On that page there is also a form that you can use to receive automatically generated e-mail messages from the URL-Minder each time the "What's New" page changes. You can also - without actually visiting that page - see when it has changed using, for instance, Netscape's bookmarks (File / What's New in the 2.0 version) or SmartMarks.

If you maintain a botanical information on the Internet, you should register it so that the search engines can find it. You can use, for instance, Submit It! - a free service designed to make the process of submitting your URLs to a variety of WWW catalogs faster and easier.

Dear friends - an ardent wish: Maintaining these pages is a voluntary one-man effort, and I am overloaded with other tasks. Please understand that I do not have time to answer to questions whether there is something on the internet about the specific botanical subject that you interested in.

May 16, 1996, Raino.Lampinen@Helsinki.Fi

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