October 20, 2009
New! Encyclopedia of Life
The Encyclopedia of Life is presented as:
“an unprecedented global partnership between the scientific community and the general public.”
The goal of this resource is to make freely available to anyone knowledge about all the world’s organisms. Anybody can register as an EOL member and add text, images, videos, comments or tags to the EOL pages. Expert curators ensure quality of the core collection by authenticating materials submitted by diverse projects and individual contributors. The EOL is a work in progress, but over time will present a comprehensive resource for all of the organisms of the world.
A few things to note:
* The administrators of the EOL site are committed to providing information for free, with as few restrictions on re-use as possible. Therefore all information you shared with EOL must also be shared with the rest of the world under a creative commons license that allows for the creation of derivative works.
* Visitors are urged to cite and visit the original sources and to credit the original source.
Institutional partners in this collaboration include:
The Biodiversity Heritage Library
The Field Museum of Natural History
Harvard University
Marine Biological Laboratory
Missouri Botanical Garden
Smithsonian Institution
And many others.