The Department of Computer Science at the University of Bristol offers teaching in the areas of software engineering, computer architecture, and computer applications. The site provides staff and vacancy details and course descriptions. Information about the research groups and their projects are included. A list of publications can be searched by keyword or author and abstracts of these provided.

Homepage of the herbarium located within the School of Plant Sciences at the University of Reading. Two databases providing information from the herbarium's collections are available online. These are: The herbarium specimens in RNG entred into BRAHMS. These are mainly collections made by Reading staff and students since 1994 and those from Morocco and the Botanical Paintings of the late Jill Smythies. The latter provides both images and data. The herbarium's newsletter is available from issue 31, 1993 to date in full-text.

The Department of Computer Science at Queen Mary, University of London site provides information about the department, members of staff, departmental seminars, teaching and research activities. The Department hosts two archives of computer science publications: Hypatia - an archive of papers, mostly in theoretical computer science and the SEL-HPC article archive - which is organised by subject area and contains the archive of publications for the department. Some articles are available full-text in PostScript format.

The Department of Computer Science at Heriot-Watt University site gives information about the research activites, courses and staff at the CS department. PhD and job vacancies are also listed.

This site is a gateway to the hidden treasures of Bolton and Bury Art Galleries and Museums. Using the Image Search users can browse fascinating images of the collections from Botany to Bolton history. Nearly 9,000 images have been created by the Treasures in Trust digitisation project and 5800 of these are already available online.

The Small British Herbaria Project (SBHP) is a joint venture between the BSBI and the University of Hull, Department of Geography. It aims to bring together information about specimens of British plants held in various collections and make it available from a single internet source. Kent and Allen's 'British and Irish Herbaria' (1984) already provides a comprehensive insight into the extent and location of collections but no information about individual specimens. At the present this information is, with some notable exceptions, only very sparingly available.The SBHP provides a general indexing service to herbaria, some of which may have their own comprehensive on-line resources but for others it could represent the sole catalogue. There are around 20 datasets currently

The Department of Applied Computing has research interests in the areas of space systems, multi-modal, ordinary and extra-ordinary HCI, telecommunications, computer based learning, interactive communication systems for disabled people, and health care computing. There is a staff directory, course information, and details of current vacancies within the department. Information about the research groups and projects and a listing of publications is also available.

This site gives access to a database of the Paraguayan flowering plants and ferns held in the Botany Department of The Natural History Museum in London. Searchable by taxonomy, region or reserve, individual specimen records link to entries in the W3Tropicos database at Missouri Botanical Garden. In addition, the site provides information on the flora of Paraguay and a description of the Mbaracayú Natural Forest Reserve (Reserva Natural del Bosque de Mbaracayú, RNBM) where some of the specimens were collected. Links to related sites and a short bibliography are also provided.

The Department of Computer Science offers teaching in systems modelling, software development, and database implementation. Information about courses, research interests and staff details are provided, as are lecture notes from some of the subject areas taught.

The BSBI is engaged in a programme of digitization of its publications, dating from the mid 19th century to the present day. The complete archive of the Watsonia publication is available online. Other publications that will in time be fully digitised include: Botanical Exchange Club reports, BSBI conference reports, BSBI News, Irish botanical News, BSBI Welsh bulletin. Digitised content currently dates from 1917 but the majority of available material dates from the 1980s onward. A database is available to enable literature searching of publications on British & Irish plants in the 20th century. Also available is a full digitised copy of Simpson, N.D. 1960 'A Bibliographical Index of the British Flora'. This now rare work provides a comprehensive listing of sources of botanical information relating to the British Isles

The Oxford University Computing Laboratory site has information about staff members, departmental news and events, and detailed course information (which include reading lists). Links are provided to research pages and teaching material is available to accompany some of the most recent book publications by staff members. Research group technical reports in PostScript format and abstracts of technical monographs are also available.

The Cavendish School of Computer Science, University of Westminster site contains information about staff, available courses, and the research centres within the School. Some technical reports are available in PDF or PostScript format as are selected publications and sample papers.

The herbarium held by the Linnean Society of London is the single most important Linnaean collection of plant specimens, as well as the largest. It contains some 14,300 specimens, many pre-dating Linnaeus' seminal work, Species Plantarum (1753). More than 4,000 of these are type specimens for Linnaean names and include plants from Asia, Europe and the Americas collected during a time of intense exploration of new lands. The digital repository provides digitised tiff files representing the entire collection. Is part of - Linnean Collections

The collection held by the Linnean Society contains over 4,000 letters from 600 different correspondents. The majority of the letters are written in Latin, the lingua franca of the scientific world at the time.The earliest letters date from the 1730s, when Linnaeus was still a relatively young man, and continue up to his death in 1778 and beyond, as it took time for news of his demise to reach more distant correspondents.English transcriptions and summaries have been provided of some letters. The digitisation has so far provided 16,500 images for reading online.

Blackwell Publishing publish books and journals covering all subject disciplines including engineering, computing and technology, maths and statistics and life and physical sciences. Their website offers access to publication details, journals contents lists and abstracts, subscription details and instructions for authors. Access to journal full-text is available to subscribers or by purchase of individual articles from Blackwell Synergy.

To provide worldwide online access to its priceless collections of specimens, manuscripts and letters, the Society is creating a digital archive of over 12 Terabytes of unique material, under the overall title of the Linnean Society Collections Online (previously the CARLS Programme - Computer Access to the Records of the Linnean Society). Some collections are already available and more shall be added in due course. The next collection to be added is the Insect Collection.The Herbarium is currently the only collection available directly through the digital repository.

The UK Computing Research Committee (UKCRC) site contains events listing, and links to articles, press releases, executive committee reports, white papers, and consultation responses.

Herbaria@home is a ground-breaking new approach to digitising and documenting the archives of the UK's herbaria. This site provides a web-based method for documenting herbarium sheets and encourages users to register as volunteers to assist with ongoing documentation activities. 16397 herbarium specimens have been documented so far with information being given about taxon, collector, locality and institution. It is possible to view a digitised images by 'hovering' over the fields in the database table.Sets of sheets have already been fully documented from the following institutions Manchester MuseumShrewsbury School, Cambridge University, National Museums Liverpool, Oxford University, National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin.

The Higher Education Academy for Information and Computer Sciences (HEA-ICS) site contains links to information resources and teaching materials for the computing and information sciences higher education (HE) community. Also available are details of conferences and events, news, book reviews, and publications which include proceedings and presentation material from past events. Is part of - Higher Education Academy

The TechXtra: OneStep Industry News site provides lists of the latest news items from a selection of engineering, mathematics and computing industry news services. Individual newsfeeds may be selected and the site may be searched. Feeds may also be viewed by subject grouping

This site is the result of an on-going project, set up to photograph and record all the leaf mining fauna which occur in Britain. Use has been made of SLR and Digital cameras as well as scanners, in compiling the site. The leaf mining fauna include Coleoptera (beetles), Diptera (flies), Hymenoptera (sawflies) and Lepidoptera (moths). The information is organised both under species of leafminers and under types of host plant, and their are distribution maps as well as keys for indentifying mines. Users of the site are encouraged to contribute images (with some advice as to equipment and techniques). The site is sponsored by Pennine Books and there is a section on recommended books.

The Pearson Education site provides access to the catalogues of Pearson Education, by subject resource centres including most areas of engineering as well as mathematics and computing. Some Companion Websites are also available.

The Natural History Museum offers this database containing new, high quality colour images of Stanley Duxbury's (1983) type and figured specimens, from the Micropalaeontology Collections. The database can searched via taxon; in addition there are browsable collections of images, plates and movies (requires Quicktime), plus a list of type specimens. The introductory section comments on the techniques used to produce the images including the use of 'Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy' (CLSM).

The Internet for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) site provides free online training in Internet skills to students and lecturers in further education. The tutorial highlights the key Internet sites for Information and Communication Technology (ICT), and includes quizzes, examples, and case studies. Teaching packs offer case study examples of how these tutorials can be used in UK further education courses and printable worksheets for students. A glossary of computing terminology and words used in the tutorial is also provided. Is part of - Intute

BioImages offers a wide selection of natural history related images, mostly of British specimens. Access to them is through links in a hierarchical taxonomic tree or via a 'shortcut' browse list of phyla, classes, orders and families. There are over 30,000 images to view, covering 3000 different species. BioImages aims to aid users in identification of species and to illustrate biodiversity.

FOLDOC is a searchable dictionary of acronyms, jargon, programming languages, tools, architecture, operating systems, networking, theory, conventions, standards, mathematics, electronics, institutions, companies, projects, products and history covering all aspects of computing.

This gallery represents the work of some of the foremost British wildlife and botanical artists. The current collections are: The Birds of Great Britain by John Gould (1804 - 1881) British Entomology by John Curtis (1791 - 1862) British mammals by Archibald Thorburn (1860 - 1935) British plants by Beatrice Corfe (? - 1947)Further collections, comprising an additional 4,000 images are in preparation. Is part of - Nature-Online collection

Research in the department is concentrated in the areas of applied formal methods, medical informatics, computational intelligence, communications and services, algebraic graph theory, applied nonlinear dynamics, and mathematical ecology. Information about the course units contains some teaching materials, which include past exam papers, tutorials, and Java applet examples.

Online version of the Thomas Pennant Exhibition held at the National Library of Wales from December 1998 to February 1999. Thomas Pennant was an author of topographical and natural history works, who helped to popularize and promote the study of natural history. For his illustrations, he employed a full-time artist, Moses Griffith, and used John Ingleby of Halkin extensively on a contract basis. Many of the images used in the exhibition can be viewed on the site and there is a complete index of the objects exhibited. There is also a selected bibliography and short chronology. The extensive supporting notes were prepared by Sian Bowyer, Paul Joyner and Charles Parry.

Information about the computing related courses offered by NEWI are available here. Subject specialisms of staff members are listed along with contact details. Recent research activity and publications are also detailed.

This site gives access to ePIC (Electronic Plant Information Centre), a set of botanical databases from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Data sets currently available include living collections, Kew Record of taxonomic literature, the International Plant Names Index (IPNI) and SEPASAL a database of vascular plant species of the tropical and sub-tropical drylands. The database may be searched by genus or species name. Full entries can be viewed via the component databases. The site also provides links to a number of related Web projects. ePIC has received UK government support via the Capital Modernisation Fund.

The Virtual Field Herbarium plant image gallery (VFH for short) is composed of images and linked data from eco-friendly researchers and artists. The Image Database allows users to filter searches according to one or more characteristics. The purpose of the website is to encourage the creation of field guides to plants in the tropics and registered users can use the website to create a simple field guide using the tools provided.

Available on this site are technical briefings, analysis by expert columnists, white papers, articles, case studies, job listings, and news feeds concerning all aspects of the IT industry. Articles require registration of details to access the full-text. A search function is provided for the news stories archive.

The information on these pages corresponds to an exhibition held at the Hunterian Museum in Scotland on the voyages of Captain Cook. Clickable maps show the routes followed in each of Cook's three voyages between 1768 and 1780. Each map is linked to images and descriptions of the areas and of the artefacts collected on the journeys. This site represents a very general introduction to the expeditions and the discoveries that these voyages brought to the Europeans of the 18th century.

This site offers the largest collection of animal and plant population data in the world, and brings together nearly five thousand time series. The facility has been constructed by researchers at the NERC Centre for Population Biology in collaboration with the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, and the Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Tennessee. The type of data varies considerably from annual counts of mammals or birds at individual sampling sites to weekly counts of zooplankton and other marine fauna. The service is provided free; however researchers are asked to register first.

Computing and Control is part of the IET Engineering Communities which aims to bring engineering and IT professionals together to discuss issues. They are open to non-members as well as members of the IET. The site includes news headlines as well as full-text papers in PDF format. There is an online library and a discussion forum. Details of events and a careers service are provided.

This website provides information about the Higher Education Academy (formerly the Learning and Teaching Support Network) biosciences programme. The Centre for Bioscience provides resources on all areas of life sciences, forestry, agriculture and food science and aims to provide a comprehensive service to support all areas of teaching and learning in higher education. Resources can be searched online. Publications, including the Bioscience Education E-Journal (BEE-j), The Centre for Bioscience Bulletin and guides in the 'Teaching Bioscience - Enhancing Learning' series can be accessed online. The Bioscience Image Bank is part of this resource. Is part of - Higher Education Academy

The wildlife sightings database contains information on recent wildlife activities at both RBG Kew and Wakehurst Place (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in Surrey and the sister gardens in West Sussex). Input into the database is undertaken by staff of the gardens and volunteers throughout the year. Data is retrievable via different groups of organisms; vertebrates, invertebrates, plants, fungi and lichens. The vertebrates, invertebrates and plant groups are then further sub-divided into smaller searchable groups. Contact details are provided for those who wish to volunteer in wildlife observation activities both at Kew or Wakehurst.

Hosted by the British Antarctic Survey the Antarctic Digital Database (ADD) has been designed as the premier source of vector topographic data for scientific GIS (geographic information systems) applications and educational uses. It is the product of an international collaborative project under the auspices of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Originally published on CD, this updated online version (4.1) provides access to cartographic material published by 11 nations and to the first seamless digital map of Antarctica compiled from these data. It is an essential resource for environmental scientific research, including information on conservation areas, bird populations and satellite altimetry. Access is through electronic registration, free of charge for non-commercial purposes. The downloaded data requires unzipping.

The website of the Suffolk Biological Records Centre offers information about the services offered, and examples of distribution maps which can be produced from existing data. There is also information about specific surveys carried out, protected sites in the county. There are also instructions on use of grid references, various documents for download, a section on policies of the Centre, and links to relevant local groups.