Mounting / Montagem / Curadoria

Types of adhesives - Univ. Illinois Preservation - short version: USE ANIMAL-BASED OR RICE GLUE  Archive

How to card mount and point mount (Youtube video with Mike Gates (SEL/USDA) for Hymenoptera Course)

Label maker (MS Word macro) - Entomology Media Services (archived) --> this moved to BugTag.com
Label Maker  - InsectNet (template Excel)
Labels standards - Biological Survey of Canada

CPD (crytical-point drying)


HMDS

Amyl Acetate/Isoamyl Acetate

Resumos

"Howtos" in Taxonomy

Taxonomic keys by Dr. Betancourt-López (URPM)

Best practice in the use of the scientific names of animals: Support for editors of technical journals (ICZN) - includes:

• 5. Format of names – how to write names correctly
• 8. Lectotype designations 
• 10. Zoobank and the registration of names 
• this handy table, so you can make sure you are forming those Latin names for new species properly:

Collecting, mounting and labeling insects - Driftless Prairies blog

Geography, mapping resources

Maps (a.k.a. yes, there is a way around it when your place is not on Google Maps!)

WikiMapia

OpenStreetMap (searches through Geonames.org)

BerkeleyMapper | code (GIT) | instructions

Global Gazeteer

SpeciesLink GeoLoc (Brazil)

Guides:

Literature Sources

This list is by no means exhaustive. It was created to help locate older literature that was not available to my local library. It was started in a largely pre-monster-digitalization-initiatives world, but until there's a crawler that gets all of these and more, finding library repos and journal archives remains important. There are some rogue journals in this list; I included them because they were major sources for the taxa I'd been working on.

My current recommendation is that one starts the search at Plazi and Biodiversity Heritage Library, the Internet Archive book collections (many libraries share special collections there) as the chances that libraries contributed to those sites are high..

Journal Abbreviations

Mapping

Software*

QGis download
QGis documentation
GRASS (Geographic Resources Analysis Support System)
more free/open source GIS 

Digital Preservation Guides

Search

Internet Archive - Wayback machine - search dead web sites

Internet Archive - eBooks and Texts - search free/open access and public domain

Biodiversity Heritage Library (partially (?) on Internet Archive as well)

Save

Open Access Directory (list of disciplinary repositories)

Registry of Research Data Repositories (Life Sciences> Biology)

Archive.is - produce a snapshot of a web page that remains in online archive or save as a picture

Wayback Machine - produce a snapshot which gets saved in Internet Archive (must allow crawlers)

Guides