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This is not an exhaustive listing of every on-line library collection on the Internet. Rather, this list is a guide to on-line catalogs of specialized collections, primarily in natural history, systematics, and the history of science. A few more general sources, as well as links to some local libraries, are also included. Unless otherwise specified, all sites allow searching of catalogs; telnet connect information is supplied where needed.

A number of image databases and various other references of interest to biologists are now on a separate list of miscellaneous resources, and you may also wish to examine our list of map and geographic collections. Consult Libweb for a master list of library information servers. For on-line journals and newsletters in the natural sciences, consult the list maintained on the UCMP server.


Alexandria Digital Library
American Museum of Natural History Library
TELNET access (log in as "library")
Australian Science Archives Project
Baso de Dados Tropical: Library and Publication Catalogs
Berkeley Public Library, Berkeley, California
Bernice Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawai'i
Museum Archives
Museum Library
Bodleian Library, Oxford
Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics, Ohio State University
British Geological Survey
Library Services
British Library, London, England
Cabot Science Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
California Academy of Sciences Library
Cornell University Library, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections (online exhibit on Louis Agassiz Fuertes)
Illinois Natural History Survey Library
INFOMINE: Biological, Agricultural, and Medical Resources, University of California-Riverside
Library of Congress
Linda Hall Library, Kansas City, Missouri
Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Libraries
"Schreber's Fantastic Beasts"
Lunar and Planetary Institute, NASA: Center for Information and Research Services
MBL/WHOI Library, Woods Hole, Massachusetts
National Agricultural Library, U.S. Department of Agriculture
U.S. National Library of Medicine Library Services
Natural History Museum, London
Department of Library and Information Services
Library Catalog
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Central Library
New York Botanical Gardens Library
Telnet link to CATALPA library catalog (log in as "library")
Research Libraries Information Network
Royal Ontario Museum: Libraries and Information Center
San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, California
Scripps Institute of Oceanography Library
Stockholm Environmental Institute
Library Database
Publications Catalogue
Stanford University, Palo Alto, California
Socrates: online library catalog (telnet: login as "socrates")
UnCover Article Service (telnet: search journals and order articles)
United States Geological Survey Library
University of California at Berkeley
Biosciences and Natural Resources Library
UCB Library System
Guide to catalogs
GLADIS: catalog for UCB libraries (telnet)
MELVYL System Databases
MELVYL: catalog for all UC system libraries (telnet)
University of Texas at Austin Library System
Geology Library
Life Science Library
Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
Vatican Library: texts on botany and natural history



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