Bibliographic Resources

• Bibliography of eastern Asiatic botany (Egbert H. Walker) 2^nd ed.  Washington: American Institute of Biological Sciences, 1960 (Z5358 .A82 W34 1960).

• The Bradley bibliography : a guide to the literature of the woody plants of the world published before the twentieth century (Alfred Rehder).  5 vols.  Cambridge, MA: Arnold Arboretum, 1911.  (Z5356 .T8 R4 1911-1918). A guide to all things botanical.

• BPH online (Botanico-Periodicum-Huntianum) is a comprehensive bibliography of periodicals with botanical content (including standard abbreviations used for botanical publications).  Also available in print:  BPH-2 , 2004 (QK1 .H8677 2004)

• BibliOrchidea. Over 150,000 references to orchid literature.

• Google scholar is a simple though incomplete way to broadly search for scholarly literature.  Signing in through the Claremont proxy server allows better integration of university e-holdings in your search results.

• Guide to the literature of botany: being a classified selection of botanical works, including 6,000 titles not given in Pritzel’s Thesaurus (Benjamin Daydon Jackson) London: Longmans, Green, 1881 (Z5351 .J12 1881)

• Index to American botanical literature is an index to publications dealing with various aspects of extant and fossil American plants and fungi published since 1995.

• Kew bibliographic databases includes the Kew Record of Taxonomic Literature (1971- ), Economic Botany (late 19C-2003), and Plant Micromorphology (1930s- ), with over 200,000 bibliographic references published after1971 relating to the taxonomy of flowering plants, gymnosperms, and ferns. Also included are references on phytogeography, nomenclature, chromosome surveys, chemotaxonomy, floras and botanical institutions, and papers of taxonomic interest in the fields of anatomy and morphology, palynology, embryology and reproductive biology along with relevant bibliographies and biographies.

• Thesaurus literaturae botanicae omnium genti m inde a rerum botanicarum initiis ad nostra usque tempora (G. A. Pritzel) 2^nd ed. Leipzig: Brockhaus, 1872 (Z5351 .P96 1872)

• TL2 Online (Taxonomic literatureZ5354.C53 R4 1976 Reference) is the standard reference work for plant taxonomic literature from Linnean times to 1940.  In this online edition you can browse the volumes and supplements of TL-2, and the original work is enhanced by the addition of various search options, including full text searching.  Includes biographical citations.

• VAST vVascular Tropicos) bibliography is MoBot’s bibliographic database and reflects their history and interests.