OpenPlantBio

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Concerned URL	http://www.e-taxonomy.eu/files/EDIT%20success%20Toward%20an%20Open%20Access%20repository.pdf
Source	EDIT
Release date	15/02/2011
Contributor	Lotte Endsleff

OpenPlantBio - Toward an Open Access repository and data services for Plant Biodiversity research

EDIT (European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy) Work Package 3 (Integrating and Reshaping the Infrastructure Basis) started a coordinated effort among twenty European institutions to optimise and share curated plant information and skills: OpenPlantBio (Open Access repository and data services for Plant Biodiversity research).

OpenPlantBio aims at a coordinated and integrated structure to assist a broad scope of users to obtain scientifically sound information on plant diversity, by federating plant biodiversity data repositories. This distributed repository will comprise the information of the major (inter)national Flora series produced and/or coordinated by European institutes. The objectives of OpenPlantBio are, to: 1) enhance accessibility of the taxonomic information; 2) make this content usable for a wider scientific audience, and 3) ensure sustainability of the infrastructure.