Wednesday, June 16, 2010

JSTOR Plant Science is Now Available

CSU Libraries is proud to announce that the JSTOR Plant Science database has been added to its digital collections found in GALILEO.

From the JSTOR website (www.jstor.org):

JSTOR Plant Science is an online environment that brings together content, tools, and people interested in plant science. It provides access to foundational content vital to plant science – plant type specimens, taxonomic structures, scientific literature, and related materials, making them widely accessible to the plant science community as well as to researchers in other fields and to the public. It also provides an easy to use interface with powerful functionality that supports research and teaching, including the ability to measure and record plant specimens, share observations and objects with colleagues and classmates, and investigate global plant biodiversity.

JSTOR Plant Science offers access to botanical and other resources from around the world including:
  • The world’s largest database of plant type specimens representing the botanical diversity of the planet. More than 600,000 specimens are available today. When complete, there will be an estimated 2.2 million.
  • Over 175,000 scientific research articles and other content dating back hundreds of years from leading academic journals including Kew Bulletin, Mycologia, International Journal of Plant Sciences, Science, PNAS, and others.
  • Foundational reference works and books such as The Useful Plants of West Tropical Africa, Flowering Plants of South Africa, and illustrations from Curtis's Botanical Magazine.
  • A significant set of correspondence, including Kew’s Directors' Correspondence which included hand-written letters and memorandum from the senior staff of Kew from 1841 to 1928.
  • More than 20,000 paintings, photographs, drawings, and other images.
You can access JSTOR Plant Sciences from GALILEO at: www.galileo.usg.edu/scholar/colstate/databases/j/

Or directly at: www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=jsrn-col1.

CSU has access to this database until December 31, 2011.

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