Florida information and organizations

• Florida Administrative Code - searchable; updated weekly
• Florida Biotic Information Consortium - includes many links to databases and websites on Florida's species and ecosystems
• Florida counties - a printable map from U.S. Census Bureau. Also available is a search form to locate the correct county for a given place name or zip code
• Florida Government Information Locator Service (FGILS)
• Florida Native Plant Society
• Florida Nursery Growers and Landscape Association
• Florida Plant Societies - an index, from Florida Plants Online
• Florida Statutes - full-text and searchable (recent years only)
• Florida's Endangered Species, Threatened Species, and Species of Special Concern -- official lists
• HortWorld - from Betrock Information Systems; includes the Plantsearch database (a searchable version of PlantFinder), and more.
• IFAS home page
• State of Florida Telephone Directory
• University of Florida home page

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US government agencies and information

• Code of Federal Regulations
• Fedworld - gateway to U.S. government information, from the National Technical Information Service (NTIS)
• GPO Access databases (Federal Register, etc.)
• USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS)
• Nematology Lab
• Systematic Botany and Mycology Laboratory
• Systematic Entomology Laboratory
• USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS)
• Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ)
• USDA Economics and Statistics System

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Plant Protection Agencies and Organizations

Other States

• Arizona
• California
• Georgia
• New Jersey
• North Carolina
• Virginia

United States

• National Association of State Departments of Agriculture
• National Plant Board
• USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS)
• National Agricultural Pest Information System (NAPIS) - database for the Cooperative Agricultural Pest Survey (CAPS)
• Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ)

International

• Agriculture and Agrifood Canada
• Canadian Food Inspection Agency - Plants sites
• Eastern Cereal and Oilseed Research Centre (Ottawa) - provides taxonomic support and is home to the Canadian national collections of insects, plants, fungi and fungal cultures
• Southern Crop Protection and Food Research Centre - previously named Pest Management Research Centre
• Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry - Australia (AFFA) - includes Animal and Plant Health and Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service
• Department of Primary Industries (Queensland, Australia)
• Agricultural Research Council (South Africa)
• European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organizationa (EPPO)
• FAO Plant Production and Protection Division
• North American Plant Protection Organization (NAPPO)
• Plant Protection Service, Secretariat of the Pacific Community

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Directories

People and Organizations

• State of Florida Telephone Directory
• IFAS Employee and Unit Directory
• Yahoo People Search - telephone numbers (US only) and email addresses (world-wide) for people and organizations
• Internet Address Finder - email addresses (world-wide)
• Switchboard home page - telephone numbers, street, email and website addresses for people and organizations (US only)
• Directory of Entomological Societies
• Directory of Entomology Departments and Institutes
• Entomology index: Directories
• Who's Who in North American Beekeeping - from Bee Culture magazine

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Libraries and Museums

• British Museum (Natural History) Libraries
• Florida Museum of Natural History
• University of Florida Herbarium (FLAS)
• Natural History Museums and Collections and Natural History Libraries - an extensive collection of links to websites, from the Natural History Caucus, Special Libraries Association
• Smithsonian Institution Libraries
• UF Libraries home page
• US National Agricultural Library - includes free access to AGRICOLA (1981+)
• US National Library of Medicine - includes free MEDLINE access via PubMed

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Journals

• Agricultural Research Magazine - from USDA/ARS; titles and keywords 1978-98; full-text Jan.1998+
• Florida Entomologist Vol. 1 - vol. 77 no. 1 (June 1917-March 1994) ; Vol. 77 no. 2 (June 1994) through current issue
• Nematology journal collection - includes full text of all issues of Journal of Nematology, Nematologia Mediterranea, and Nematropica (PDF format)

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Online Reference Sources

General Reference

• Information Please home page - searchable online almanacs, encyclopedia and dictionary
• Refdesk - extensive indexes of links to facts and reference sources

Geography Reference

• GEOnet Names Server - non-US geographical feature names approved by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names, from the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (How to search)
• USGS Geographic Names Information System - official source of information about physical and cultural geographic features in the United States (How to search)

Biology and Agriculture Reference

• Common Names of Insects & Related Organisms - a searchable database from the Entomological Society of America
• Common Names of Plant Diseases - from the American Phytopathological Society; search by keyword or view lists by host name
• EDIS - the Uiversity of Florida IFAS Extension site
• Fungal Databases - from USDA Systematic Botany and Mycology Laboratory; includes: Specimens in the U.S. National Fungus Collections, Fungi on Plants and Plant Products in the United States, References on the systematics of plant pathogenic fungi, Index to Saccardo's Syl1oge Fungorum, and an index to the Index of Fungi (1940-1980)
• Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN) Taxonomy - from USDA-ARS; covers plants, especially economic plants
• Index Fungorum - a searchable database of fungal names at species level and below (links to separate databases of family and generic names are also on this page), compiled from authoritative published lists; from CABI Bioscience
• Index to Organism Names - covers animals, bacteria, fungi and mosses; sponsored by BIOSIS with data from Zoological Record, USDA/ARS Systematic Botany and Mycology, International Mycological Institute, and Missouri Botanical Garden
• ICTVdB - Virus databases of the International Committee on the Taxonomy of Viruses; features searchable lists of virus families, genera and species with descriptions and a picture gallery
• Insect & Mite Databases - from USDA's Systematic Entomology Laboratory; includes ScaleNet, Biosystematic Database of World Diptera, and more
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) - taxonomic information on the biota of North America from cooperating US Federal agencies; part of the Species 2000 project
• International Code of Botanical Nomenclature- electronic version of the current (2000 ed.) text
• International Code of Zoological Nomenclature - Electronic version of the current code (4th ed., 2000)
• International Plant Names Index - a searchable database of plant names and the citations for their original descriptions ; includes data from Index Kewensis, the Gray Herbarium Card Index, and the Australian Plant Names Index
• InvasiveSpecies.gov - gateway to US Federal and State invasive species activities and programs, and the website for the National Invasive Species Council
• List of Prokaryotic Names with Standing in Nomenclature - includes changes/updates from International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology
• National Ag Safety Database (NASD) - a compendium of US federal (including EPA and OSHA) and state information on agricultural safety and health, from NIOSH
• NCBI Taxonomy Browser - search the National Institute for Biotechnology Information's database for any organism by scientific or common name, and view it's complete taxonomic lineage
• National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) - USGS's web portal to government data and information on biological resources
• Nomenclatural Glossary for Zoology - terms used by indexers from Zoological Record
• PLANTS National Database - from USDA; electronic replacement for the National List of Scientific Plant Names; provides scientific and common names, symbols, and other attributes of native or naturalized plants known to occur in the US

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Web Guides

• Finding information on the Internet: a tutorial - covers beginning information to advanced searching; from UC Berkeley Libraries
• Evaluation of information sources - the WWW Virtual Library page on this topic

Subject directories

• BiologyBrowser -- from Thomson BIOSIS
• Database of IPM Resources
• Entomology index of Internet Resources - at Iowa State University
• Librarians Index to the Internet - a searchable, evaluated and annotated general subject directory to Web resources
• PestWeb - Pest Control Industry Website
• WWW Virtual Library - including sections on Agriculture, Botany, Entomology, Gardening, and more...
• Yahoo - useful sections include Agriculture, Insects, Botany (includes subsection on phytopathology) and Mycology