Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Encyclopedia of Life

A webpage for every organism on earth is the goal of this site, which was initially funded in 2007 by the MacArthur Foundation and the Sloan Foundation.  To "learn how to navigate EOL, search for content, customize your experience, and explore pages..." visitors can start with the tab "Using the Site" at the top of the page.  Here, there is a video tour on general "Navigation" of the site and instructions on how specifically to use the "Species Pages".  Users can check out the FAQs section under the same tab for more help.  Visitors can select the "Language" tab at the top of the page to view the site in English, Spanish, Russian, Ukranian, German, or French. In the "About EOL" tab on the far upper right hand side of the page, visitors can check out the "Content Partners" link about halfway down the menu.  There are over two dozen partners and links to their websites listed,
including the Nearctic Spider Database, Mushroom Observer, FishBase, and AntWeb.

http://www.eol.org/

From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout 1994-2009.
http://scout.wisc.edu/


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