DPE: Repository: Linnean Herbarium, University of London Computer Centre

Linnean Herbarium, University of London Computer Centre

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Descriptive Properties

Name: Linnean Herbarium
Institution: University of London Computer Centre
Address:
20 Guilford Street, London WC1N 1DZ
URL: http://www.linnean-online.org/view/plants_alpha/plants_alpha.html
Country: The United Kingdom
Description:

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

Languages:

English

OAI-PMH Properties

OAI-PMH status known? No
Supports OAI-PMH? No
OAI-PMH Metadata Streams:

Technical Properties

Software: EPrints
Z39.50 Support? No
Has some full-texts? No
Open Access? Yes
Access Rights:
Available to all
Legal Mandate to Preserve? No
Ingest Policy:

Long Term Preservation Strategy:
no

Administrative Properties

Uploaded: 18 January 2008 by DRAI
Last Edited: 18 January 2008 by DRAI

Quarantine Status: Not quarantined