mira Posted November 28, 2012 If you have JSTOR access through a Uni or other means you should have acess to their new Plants collection for the time being. It is amazing to say the least. It is the single best plant image/hebarium scan resource I've seen anywhere. It should be helpful for those of you who use such resources like kada and Zaka. http://plants.jstor.org/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mira Posted November 28, 2012 (edited) Also this one is pretty good too and open access, but less herbarium specimen oriented and more toward written botanical works: http://www.botanicus.org Use the names search feature to be able to search by species/genus. Edited November 28, 2012 by mira Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
poisonshroom Posted November 28, 2012 Atlas of living Australia and the state herbariums also have pretty good online resources. Also (not online), a lot of the capital cities (as well as cairns) have herbariums with public sections that you can look at actual preserved specimens and identification books/field guides Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kadakuda Posted November 29, 2012 i love Jstor, but those looking around tha tnew feature you can get a lto from it but in teh end need to be signed in to see thign sliek large photos. you know of any way around that without a connection taht can get in? more often than not when i am trying to learn about something plant wise i often find the most information in regional texts discussing the plant(s) from a given area. here is some free stuff inclduing books (entire floras), herbarium specimens etc all online free to public. this is almost all for Taiwan and some of the outlaying areas from Japan down to teh Philippines. hxxp://tai2.ntu.edu.tw/ebook.php Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mira Posted November 29, 2012 (edited) I had trouble gaining access too. I ended up having to use a VPN through a friend's Uni library account. The normal web-proxy stuff I use for access didn't work because the url wasn't specifically whitelisted by the library. That botanicus.org link is free and has a lot of flora and other old books that are really useful including all of the Harvard Botanical Leaflets (Schultes, Plowman, etc.), Die Cactaceae, Curti's Botanical Magazine, etc. Edit: Make sure to use the name search for the best functionality. This has a lot of overlap with botanicus, but it has some more material, higher-res scans, and a better interface in my opinion--a lot more German books too: http://www.biodivers...rg/Default.aspx Edited November 29, 2012 by mira Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
