They allow the access to several collections and/or databases at the same time, delivering combined information about specimens or occurrences.
They are different biodiversity sources proceeding from the Iberomacaronesic region (the Iberian Peninsula, Balearic Islands, Canary Islands, Azores, and Madeira).
Many of the natural history collections in Spain are aware of the importance of sharing their data via the internet. Because of this, regardless of their participation in global initiatives like GBIF, it is frequent to find individual initiatives for the publication of their data both in an internal level in the institution as on the internet. In this label, we present a list of the most relevant free-access collections.
DiSSCo is a new pan-European Research Infrastructure initiative of 21 European countries with a vision to position European natural science collections at the centre of data-driven scientific excellence and innovation in environmental research, climate change, food security, one health and the bioeconomy.
The Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) is a model for the cooperative online publication of scientific journals. It has specifically been developed to address the needs of the scientific community in developing countries and particularly in Latin America and the Caribe. The model provides an efficient solution to ensure the viability and universal access to the scientific literature of this region.
The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) is a database containing information from books, journals, other databases, websites, specimen collections, etc., about the many life-forms on Earth.
The Observatory aims to facilitate knowledge about Citizen Science, increasing the visibility and participation of citizens in active projects related to citizen science. It also facilitates the coordination among projects in order to search and establish synergies between them.
The Open Source Geospatial Foundation, or OSGeo, is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to support the collaborative development of open source geospatial software and promote its widespread use. The foundation provides financial, organizational and legal support to the broader open source geospatial community.
Meet Your Neighbours is a worldwide photographic initiative dedicated to reconnecting people with the wildlife on their own doorsteps – and enriching their lives in the process. These creatures and plants are vital to people: they represent the first, and for some, the only contact with wild nature we have.
The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is a consortium of natural history and botanical libraries that cooperate to digitize the legacy literature of biodiversity held in their collections and to make that literature available for open access and responsible use as a part of a global “biodiversity commons.” The BHL consortium works with the international taxonomic community, rights holders, and other interested parties to ensure that this biodiversity heritage is made available to a global audience through open access principles. In partnership with the Internet Archive and through local digitization efforts, the BHL has digitized millions of pages of taxonomic literature, representing over 120,000 titles and over 200,000 volumes.
Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG), also known as the Taxonomic Databases Working Group, is a not for profit scientific and educational association that is affiliated with the International Union of Biological Sciences. TDWG was formed to establish international collaboration among biological database projects. TDWG promoted the wider and more effective dissemination of information about the World's heritage of biological organisms for the benefit of the world at large. Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) now focuses on the development of standards for the exchange of biological/biodiversity data.
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