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JSTOR Global Plants is an online collection of images and scientific notes on plant specimens.

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Basic search:

Names: Searches for official specimen or family name.

Free text: All words in the description.

Advanced Search option provides for field searching, including Family, Genus, Epithet, Herbarium Code, Herbarium Name, and Type.

Full text: 100% of records include the full-text (usually an image and notes on the specimen).

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Database Content:

• JSTOR Global Plants is the world’s largest database of digitized plant specimens and a locus for international scientific research and collaboration.
• Includes about 3 million entries, primarily Herbarium specimens.
• The largest of its kind, Global Plants consists of 66 sub-collections, showcasing hand-selected specimens that have been meticulously digitized by partner herbaria with generous support from the Mellon Foundation. This resource also features partner-contributed reference works and primary sources, such as collectors’ correspondence and diaries, illustrations, and photographs.
• Selected sub-collections include reference works and books such as The Useful Plants of West Tropical Africa, illustrations from Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, and Kew’s Directors’ Correspondence.

Platform:  JSTOR

Full-text: All items

Content Update: Ongoing collection.

Provider: JSTOR / California State University, Electronic Core Collection (CSU ECC)

Library Guide Database URL: https://library.csustan.edu/jstor-plants

Library PURL: https://libpurl.csustan.edu/s/purl.php?2469

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