Systematic Biology

US National Science Foundation (NSF), in partnership with academic institutions, botanical gardens, freshwater and marine institutes, and natural history museums, seeks to enhance and stimulate taxonomic research and help prepare future generations of experts, through support of competitively reviewed research projects that target groups of poorly known organisms; an effort designed to encourage the training of new generations of taxonomists and to translate current expertise into electronic databases and other formats with broad accessibility to the scientific community

the names of organisms are the key to biodiversity communications and as such, provide access to the accumulated knowledge of all life on Earth. However, despite the obvious value of a catalogue, no comprehensive indexing system yet exists for the 1.75 million animals, plants, fungi and micro-organisms named by science. This lack of a widely accessible index, with inbuilt mechanisms for maintenance and updating, is a significant constraint on all nations wishing to fulfill their obligations under the Convention on Biological Diversity.

presentation of a conference paper and a system

USGS National Biological Services - For Release, August 30 1995 (web archive site)

online identification tool, NMITA

NSF-PEET workshop report

provides regular updates on developments in the systematics of venomous snakes (incl. new publications, links, bibliographies, species lists etc.)

Society of Australian Systematic Biologists (SASB)

online pdf document from Systematic & Applied Acarology Special Publications - hosted by the Systematic & Applied Acarology Society (SAAS)