The GBIF integrated publishing toolkit: Facilitating the efficient publishing of biodiversity data on the internet

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Robertson, Tim ^a   Döring, Markus ^a   Guralnick, Robert ^b   Bloom, David ^c   Wieczorek, John ^c   Braak, Kyle ^a   Otegui, Javier ^b   Russell, Laura ^d   Desmet, Peter ^e  

^a Global Biodiversity Information Facility   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^e RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR NATURE AND FOREST INBO   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; INFORMATION CENTER; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNET; PUBLISHING;

BIODIVERSITY; INTERNET; PUBLISHING; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84905457105     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0102623     Document Type: Article

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