On 9/20/09, Dr E S Santhosh Kumar <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Library is a growing organism. Many classical literature of botany are
> available in following site www.botanicus.com maintained by MOBOT.
>
> Santhosh
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> 2009/9/20 Dr. Pankaj Kumar <[email protected]>
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>>
>> Learn wherever is possible
>> Learn whatever is possible
>> As Rashida says, there is no versus here!!
>> Now a days many important references like Flora of British India is
>> available on internet, all the volumes, so it saves time!!
>> Pankaj
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>> SANTHOSH
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>> Dr. E S SANTHOSH KUMAR
>> Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute, Palode
>> Thiruvananthapuram-695562
>> Kerala, India
>> www.drsanthosh.wetpaint.com
>> Please consider your environmental responsibility:Before printing this
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The main topic of discussion here is whether the huge wealth of research
information lying in libraries of major Universities, BSI/ZSI is available
to the average plant lover are not. Agreed serious researchers need
libraries to work, but we are talking of taking knowledge to the general
public and what is the best means of making information available to them. I
have several volumes of Flora of Pakistan, a few of Flora of India, but
please search through your libraries and let me know how many have all
volumes of Flora of India published by BSI, how many have volumes Pakistan
Flora, and more importantly Flora of China, which has so many plants common
with our flora. Contrary to this I can sitting in Delhi, California or
anywhere else have access to Efloras, and can identify my plants.
We are aiming to take information to the common man, and www is the
best medium for that.
But as I wrote earlier, there is some misinformation on the internet,
but there are then also meanins of sieving it. This group has proved that
many a times.
There are many important researchers active in BSI/ZSI and different
Universities. But the important question is have we all benefitted from
that?. WWW is there to pupularise that. Today if I have to find any new
research and development in Taxonomy I browse APWeb and always find
something new.
--
Dr. Gurcharan Singh
Associate Professor, Department of Botany, SGTB Khalsa College
University of Delhi, Delhi-110007
Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018
Phone: 011025518297; Mobile: 9810359089
http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/
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