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Encyclopedia of Life

The Encyclopedia of Life is a collaborative scientific effort led by the Field Museum of Natural History, Harvard University, Marine Biological Laboratory, Missouri Botanical Garden, Smithsonian Institution, and Biodiversity Heritage Library, a consortium including the core institutions and also the American Museum of Natural History (New York), Natural History Museum (London), New York Botanical Garden, and Royal Botanic Gardens (Kew). Ultimately, the Encyclopedia of Life will provide an online database for all 1.8 million species now known to live on Earth. When completed, http://www.eol.org will serve as a global biodiversity tool, providing scientists, policymakers, students, and citizens information they need to discover and protect the planet and encourage learning and conservation.

Encyclopedia of Earth

Encyclopedia of Earth (http://www.eoearth.org/) seeks to become the world’s largest and most authoritative electronic source of information about the environments of Earth and their interactions with society.The EoE is an Open Source project that uses a modified version of MediaWiki as its authoring platform. The EoE’s author wiki is restricted to individuals judged to be expert in their field by an editorial board, and articles are reviewed and approved by a subject-specific editor prior to publication.

Announcing SPIE Digital Library

Access to the SPIE Digital Library is now available from the Databases and Indexes to Articles menu of the library web site. Individual title access to publications in this resource is also available through SFX.

SPIE Digital Library includes more than 120,000 technical papers. These papers were published either in the SPIE Proceedings series or in one of the four SPIE journals. Full text coverage begins 1990 or the first date of the journal publication (whichever is first). Also included are citations and abstracts for most journal papers published since 1992.SPIE journals and proceedings are core information resources for the subject areas of optics, photonics and imaging.

Approximately 15,000 papers added annually.

The SPIE Digital Library gives you full text access to the following publications:

• Journal of Applied Remote Sensing (JARS): Vol. 1 (2007) – present
• Journal of Biomedical Optics: Vol. 1 (1996) – present
• Journal of Electronic Imaging: Vol. 1 (1990) – present
• Journal of Micro/Nanolithography, MEMS, and MOEMS: Vol. 1 (2002) – present
• Journal of Nanophotonics (JNP): Vol. 1 (2007) – preasent
• Optical Engineering: Vol. 29 (1992) – present
• Proceedings of SPIE: Vol. 1200 (1990) – present