The Library - Electronic Resources

Library catalogue

The library catalogue lists the ANBG Library collections, as well as approximately 15,000 items retained from the former Central Library at the Department of the Environment. It contains entries for all book and journals held in the library.

Databases

Algaebase literature search, 42,500 bibliographic items on algae of the world.
Agricola Bibliographic database of citations to the agricultural literature created by the U.S. National Agricultural Library.
Australian Botanical Name Portal [formerly Species Links]
Bibliography of Systematic Mycology literature on fungi, from CABI.
BibliOrchidea Orchid literature [requires registration - free].
Botanicus digitised historical botanical literature from Missouri Botanical Garden Library.
CANBR and ANBG Botanical Databases
Cyberliber - an electronic library for mycology.
Flora of Australia Online from Australian Biological Resources Study.
IndExs an index of exsiccatae.
Liverwort Literature, 12,000 records, from Early Land Plants Today project.
Recent Literature on Lichens

Journals

All journal titles held by the Library are listed in the library catalogue. Electronic versions of some titles are available to staff and to library visitors.

Growing Native Plants An updated and expanded version of the printed series published by the ANBG from 1971 to 1989. Digitised versions of the original publications are available from the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL)

See also these sites for access to online journals:

e-journals.org/botany/ "Electronic sites of leading botany, plant biology and science journals".
Biodiversity Heritage Library digital copies of titles from 10 major UK and US institutions.
Botanicus digitised historical botanical literature from Missouri Botanical Garden Library.
Cyberliber - an Electronic Library for Mycology.
Early Land Plants Today (ELPT) bryology journals.

Reference titles

Authors of Fungal Names from Index Fungorum.
Census of South Australian Plants, Algae and Fungi

Census of the Flora of the Australian Capital Territory
Composite Gazetteer of Australia = Geoscience Australia Place Names Search.
Flora NT: Northern Territory flora online
Flora of Australia Online from Australian Biological Resources Study
Flora of Tasmania online
Florabase [Western Australian Herbarium]
Index Herbariorum Global directory of public herbaria and associated staff.
Index Nominum Genericorum (ING)
International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants Shenzhen Code (2018)
International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants 7th ed. (2004)
International Plant Names Index (IPNI) [includes Authors of Plant Names database (an updated version of Brummitt & Powell)]
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
Names in Current Use for Extant Plant Genera NCU-3e, updated electronic version
Plantnet: New South Wales Flora online

Taxonomic Literature, 2nd ed. (TL-2) A selective guide to botanical publications and collections with dates, commentaries and types
VicFlora Online Flora of Victoria

Bibliographies

Library staff have compiled bibliographies on popular topics, based on the collections held in the ANBG Library.

Directories of botanic gardens

Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI) Garden search A worldwide directory.
Gardenvisit.com Garden finder A worldwide directory, includes public and private gardens
Internet directory for botany : arboreta and botanical gardens
American Public Gardens Association Public Garden search North American gardens