A plea for digital reference collections and other science-based digitization initiatives in taxonomy: Sepsidnet as exemplar: Digital reference collections such as Sepsidnet

Systematic Entomology

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 637-644

  Ang, Yuchen ^a   Puniamoorthy, Jayanthi ^a   Pont, Adrian C ^b,c   Bartak, Miroslav ^d   Blanckenhorn, Wolf U ^e   Eberhard, William G ^f,g   Puniamoorthy, Nalini ^a,e   Silva, Vera C ^h   Munari, Lorenzo ⁱ   Meier, Rudolf ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^d CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSIDAD DE COSTA RICA   (Costa Rica)

^g SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^h SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

ⁱ Civic Museum of Natural History   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITIZATION; TAXONOMY;

EID: 84879410915     PISSN: 03076970     EISSN: 13653113     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/syen.12015     Document Type: Article

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