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1 Introducing Global Plants A comprehensive database for the study of plant life September 2016 Welcome! The webinar will begin shortly. All participants will be muted; please use the Questions window to chat with the organizers and ask questions.

2 Today s Demo» Brief overview of Global Plants and the Global Plants Initiative» Demonstration of Global Plantshttp://plants.jstor.org» Questions» How to set up a trial

3 JSTOR JSTOR, a research platform that enables discovery, access, and preservation of scholarly content, merged with ITHAKA in 2009 and is a service of the organization. ITHAKA is a not-for-profit organization that helps the academic community use digital technologies to preserve the scholarly record and to advance research and teaching in sustainable ways. We pursue this mission by providing innovative services that aid in the adoption of these technologies and that create lasting impact.

4 About Global Plants Global Plants is a comprehensive database of plant type specimens and complementary content» The largest of its kind more than 2.5 million plant type specimens and other foundational materials» Contains the contributed collections of more than 300 herbaria from 70 countries

5 About the Global Plants Initiative (GPI) GPI represents a 10 year collaborative effort» Began with a small group of herbaria, then called the African Access Initiative, expanded to incorporate herbaria and plants from Latin America, and then became global in scale» Today, GPI partner organizations from Argentina to Zimbabwe capture data and use digital technologies to create high resolution images of type specimens from their collections Global Plants partners at 2013 Annual Meeting held by Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama City, Republic of Panama

6 The Global Plants Initiative Partners All biologists will have access to the fundamental data of type and associated material, so basic to the identification and nomenclature of the world s flora through Global Plants a truly remarkable pinnacle of collaborative activity and success. The Linnean Society of London, United Kingdom.

7 New Partners Some of our newest partners:» California Department of Food and Agriculture (US)» Oman Botanic Garden (Oman)» National Museum of Nature and Science (Japan)» Taiwan Forestry Research Institute (Taiwan)» University of Alaska (US)» University of Bern (Switzerland)

8 About GPI and JSTOR In partnership with JSTOR, GPI has produced a sustainable resource that the international scientific community can rely upon.» JSTOR acts as the virtual hub, providing the production systems, support for digitizing the types, a platform for discovery, and longterm storage» Educational, cultural, governmental, and other research institutions contribute annual fees for access to parts of the database

9 About Global Plants: Plant Type Specimens» More than two million plant type specimens» Act as vouchers for scientific plant names» Essential reference object for a name

10 About Global Plants: Complementary Material

11 New in 2016 In 2016:» More than 167,000+ plant type specimens from herbaria in Australia, Colombia, Netherlands, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, and many others

12 New in 2016: 4,700+ complimentary materials» Drawings Franz Josepf Ruppert Original Drawings of German Orchids Franz Joseph Ruppert ( ) was a German pharmacist, plant collector, and botanical illustrator who specialized in German orchids

13 New in 2016: 4,700+ complimentary materials» Illustrations Botanische Staatssammlung München Artwork - Water Colours of Fungi by Fritz Wohlfarth ITZW Dr. Fritz Wohlfarth ( ) collected fresh plant and fungal material and pursued his passion of painting nature

14 New in 2016: 4,700+ complimentary materials» Photographs Photograhs of Flora Randu The Flora Randu collection contains photographs by Father Jos Stevens of plants growing in Ferme Randu and the surrounding area in southwest Katanga, DRC. There are photographs of more than 300 plant species representing 81 families and 229 genera.

15 New in 2016: 4,700+ complimentary materials» Engravings Flora Graeca Sibthorpiana Flora Graeca Sibthorpiana is the earliest of the modern Floras, consisting of 10 volumes of handcoloured engravings of the plants of Greece and Asia Minor, authored by the English botanist John Sipthorp and illustrated by the Austrian botanical artist Ferdinand Bauer.

16 Features & Functionality Scientists, students, and others will find tools to help them conduct their research:» Search: Find results quickly through with basic search and domainspecific filters» High Image Quality: View high resolution images» Save: Measure and save plant information to personal MyAccount» Discover: Link to relevant journal articles on JSTOR, Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), and Tropicos Compilation pages: view all the resources related to a particular plant name or taxon» Comment: follow the discussion by experts in the field» Stable Links: Locate, cite, and create stable links to type specimens

17 Choice reviewed Global Plants in October 2013 Choice named JSTOR Global Plants as one of the Outstanding Academic Titles, 2013: Overall, this valuable resource offers access to a wealth of information: key literature, history, relevant art, geographic distribution, plant classification, background information, and beautiful images. Summing Up: Essential. Lower-division undergraduates through professionals/practitioners; informed general audiences.

18 Library Journal: Best Databases 2014 Library Journal named Global Plants Best Niche Database of Most impressive is the cooperative nature of the work, which has rapidly produced a valuable corpus of images the attractive images document species that may soon be lost to the world, others that are new to scientific description, and still more that are noteworthy simply for their beauty or usefulness.

19 Demo

20 Questions?

21 Thank you for your interest! To set up a 30-day, campus-wide trial to Global Plants, please contact: plants@jstor.org

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