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The resources listed on this page can be useful for collecting information, pictures and the like about spiders. Please add any resources you find useful that are not yet listed here.
Collections and databases
[edit]- World Spider Catalog
- Spiders from Europe and Australia
- Nearctic Spider Database
- British Arachnological Society (good for distributions sometimes)
- Ohio Spider Survey
- Colorado Spider Survey
- The Spiders of Kentucky
- Tool for building Genera and Family list articles
General information
[edit]The reference below need to be included in the section of checklist: Norma-Rashid, Y. & D. Li. 2009. A checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Peninsular Malaysia inclusive of twenty new records. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 57(2): 305-322. the pdf format can be uploaded online
Spider systematics
[edit]Spider identification
[edit]Species describers
[edit]Jumping spiders
[edit]- Jumping Spiders of the World
- Biology of the Salticid Spiders
- Global Species Database of Salticidae
- Guide to French Salticidae
- Salticid subfamilies
Scientific articles
[edit]Mixed license
[edit]- BiologyBrowser - many online archives, some free, some needing a subscription.
- ZOOTAXA - some articles are public, some require subscription.
Free license
[edit]- Psyche - A Journal of Entomology. Online archive from 1957 to 2000. Possibly released under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which essentially means that we can extract pictures and text as we wish and include it in WP, as long as we tell where we got it from; however, if this is correct, we need to find a link stating this for archived articles rather than new ones.
- ZooKeys – articles are released under CC-BY-4.0 (see here), which means that with correct referencing we can copy text or images.
Free download
[edit]The journals listed here can be downloaded at no price, but the content may nevertheless be copyrighted.
- Journal of Arachnology (every issue from 1973 to 2005 online as PDF)
- American Museum of Natural History (many research articles online as PDF)
- Annales Zoologici Fennici 1983-2002
- SpringerLink seems to have opened their journal archives: 1,500 journals, search by keyword, eg. Araneae[dead link] (236 results, have fun ;)
Subscription
[edit]If you work in an university, chances are that you have access to one of these publications, even if you are not an arachnologist:
- todo
- Bellmann, Heiko (1997). Kosmos-Atlas Spinnentiere Europas. Kosmos, Stuttgart. ISBN 3440070255 (german)