Other Internet Servers
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Other Internet Servers
The latest link was added on 12 March 1996
General Search Engines and Internet Starting Points
- Altavista (Web Index)
- ArchiePlexForm (to search FTP Areas)
- Internet Newsgroups
- LANIC's WWW Virtual Library
- List Servers
- Lycos, The Catalog of the Internet
- The Muscat Web Explorer
- Starting Points for Internet Exploration
- Virtual Libraries
- WebCrawler Searching System
- WWW Virtual Library
- WWWW - the World Wide Web Worm
- Yahoo
Environmentally Focused Starting Points
- Centre for Earth Observation
- CIESIN Catalog System
- Davinci GMS Gateway
- Ecology Web Sites
- Environmental Information Servers (very comprehensive)
- Environmental News Network
- Environmental Organization Web Directory
- GENIE Casual User Interface
- Global Change Master Directory (NASA)
- International Environment Resources
- NEIRC (National Environmental Resources Center)
- Protected Areas Virtual Library
- A detailed inventory of Web sites dealing with protected areas
- United Nations Information Services
- IUCN-the World Conservation Union
- WWW Virtual Library: Environment
News
- INTERNET Magazine
- News Link
Antarctic and Arctic
- Alaska (EROS)
- Arctic Circle
- Barents Region
- British Antarctic Survey
- GRID-Arendal (UNEP)
- Lapland Forest Damage Project
- Norwegian Polar Institute
- World Data Centre, C (Glaciology)
Biodiversity
- BENE Hypermail
- Monthly compositions of mail on the BENE listserver
- BDT Base de Dados Tropical Web
- BIN21 sites in Australia;
Brazil;
Ecuador;
Finland
Biodiversity Action Network (BioNet)
- Biodiversity and Biological Collections Gopher (at Harvard)
- Biodiversity and Biological Collections Web server
- Biodiversity and Ecosystems Network (BENE)
- Bioline Publications
- Canadian Biodiversity Information Network
- Communications for a Sustainable Future
- Assorted links to a variety of conservation information resources
- Conservation Biology Listserver
- Conservation International
- Endangered Species (USA bias)
- European Centre for Nature Conservation
- INBio (Costa Rica)
- Journals Browse (Life Sciences)
- Ocean Voice International
- Pangaea (Patagonian Wildlife)
- Sierra Club
- Smithsonian Institution's Natural History Gopher
- Terry Polk's Zoological E-mail Directory (held at WCMC)
Coastal and Marine
- Aquatic Conservation Network
- Worldwide Wetlands, Hydrology and Coastal Links
Education
- Costa Rica on the Path to Sustainability
- Environment Education
- The Globe Program
- Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment
- Knowledge Exchange for K-12 Education
Environmental Information
- African Studies at U. Penn
- American Library Congress ~ Country Studies/Area Handbook Program
- Country Environmental Studies
- The California Environmental Resources Evaluation System
- Country Environmental Studies
- Environmental Resources Information Network (ERIN)
- European Environment Agency
- Friends of the Earth (UK)
- Global Land Information System
- Information Center for the Environment
- International Arid Lands Consortium
- National Wildlife Federation
- Ramsar
Convention Bureau (Wetlands)
- The Natural Heritage Network Central Server (ABI and TNC-US) (covers the Americas)
- Planet Earth Home Page
- Small Islands Information Network
- UNEP GRID Arendal
- UNEP Harmonizing Environmental Measurements
- United States Fish and Wildlife Service
- United States Geological Survey (USGS)
- 19th Session of the World Heritage Committee
- World Resources Institute
Environmental Science, Technology and Research
- BioInformatics gopher at ANU
- Cambridge School of Biological Sciences
- Frontier (expeditions)
- National Atlas Information Service (a WWW-based GIS)
- NORUT Information Technology Ltd. (IT, remote sensing, GIS, modelling)
- On-line Environmental and Geographic Information Systems
-
UMANITOBA (environmental science) Gopher server
- U.S. Long-Term Ecological Research Network (LTER)
Indigenous Peoples
- Arthur McGee's List of Indigenous Sites
- A good coverage of ethnicity issues
- Center for Indigenous Knowledge for Agricultural Research and Development (CIKARD)
- Edward Hammond's Indigenous Peoples, Biodiversity and IPR Site
- International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
- NativeWeb
- University of Minnesota Forestry Bibliography
Meteorology
-
Centre for Atmospheric Science
-
Meteorology Information from UEA
Microorganisms, Genetic Resources and Biotechnology
- The Microbial Strain Data Network (MSDN)
- MSDN IRRO Data
- WFCC World Data Center on Microorganisms
- Dendrome, A Genome Database for Forest Trees
- W.M. Keck Centre for Genome Informatics
- Biotechnology Information Center (BIC)
- BIC provides access to a variety of information services and publications covering many aspects of agricultural biotechnology including links to Ag Biotech-related WWW home pages.
Papers and Useful Texts
- Bibliography on Biodiversity Assessment Methodologies
- Chapman and Hall (Publisher)
- Endangered Ecosystems of the United States:
- A Preliminary Assessment of Loss and Degradation (Noss et al., 1995).
- Gap Analysis
- The Multilaterals Project
- Numerous texts of international conventions
Plants
- Association of Systematics Collections
- Australian National Botanic Gardens Biodiversity Server
- Botanical Garden Mapping
- CIFOR - Center for International Forestry Research
- European Forest Institute
- European Tropical Research Network (ETFRN)
- Forestry Library
- Institute of Forest Genetics Dendrome Project
- Missouri Botanical Garden
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
- Seventh American Forest Congress
- Texas Plant Diversity Information Center (PDIC)
- The Sustainable Forests Directory
Policy, Finance and Legal
- American Legistlative Information
- Convention on Biological Diversity
- European Centre for Development Policy Management
- G7 Global Information Infrastructure
- Inter-American Development Bank
- UNDP ftp
- UNDP Gopher
- The World Bank
Social Sciences
- Brazilian Statistical and Geographic Foundation
- Socialeconomic Data and Applications Center
- Social Indicators of Development (CIESIN and the World Bank)
- Social Science Server - ANU (The Australian National University)
- Trends in Developing Economies (CIESIN and the World Bank)
WWW Related Software and General Computing
- World of Computers
- SunSite
-
SunSITE Northern Europe 'The Archive' at Imperial College
-
SunSITE Japan
- Novell Web Site
- Hypermail
- Word Perfect to HTML converter, FTP site
- Very useful, especially for the development of WCMC's Web pages
-
Olivetti Research Ltd
- Asian Institute of Technology
- University of Cambridge Computer Lab
- URL-Minder: Web Robot!
General Interest and Diversions
- Standards and standardization bodies
- The Recipes Folder!
-
Charm Net Home Page
- Trojan Room Coffee Machine (Cambridge University)
- Dr Fun (Cartoons)
- The Dilbert Zone
- The UK National Lottery Results
For further information on Internet Services, contact: Ian Barnes, Data and Communications Coordinator
e-mail: ian.barnes@wcmc.org.uk; Tel: +44 (0)1223 277314