List of publication repositories - Archilegt/Myriatrix GitHub Wiki

This alphabetical list of online repositories is intended as an aid in the search for free online versions of publications on Onychophora and Myriapoda.

Last updated: 4.iv.2023

ALO - Austrian Literature Online
http://www.literature.at/default.alo
ALO is a digital library with more than 15.000 documents from the 11th Century up to the present. Books, journals, newspapers, manuscripts, theses and scientific essays are available in digitized form or as PDF. ALO originates from an initiative of the University Innsbruck Library, the University Library Graz and the Integrated Studies Institute of the University of Linz. The Proceedings of the 8th International Congress of Myriapodology (1992) can be found there (http://www.literature.at/alo?objid=10407).

BHL - Biodiversity Heritage Library
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/
The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is the world’s largest open access digital library for biodiversity literature and archives. BHL is revolutionizing global research by providing free, worldwide access to knowledge about life on Earth. The BHL portal provides free access to hundreds of thousands of volumes, comprising over 59 million pages, from the 15th-21st centuries.

Biblioteca Digital del Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid
https://bibdigital.rjb.csic.es/
By 2021 it contains circa 7900 documents and 1.9 million pages. It includes publications more recent than those in the BHL.

BioNames
http://bionames.org/
A database linking taxonomic names to their original descriptions, to taxa, and to phylogenies.

BIOfid - Specialised Information Service Biodiversity Research
https://biofid.de/en/search/
While not a repository on itself, this evolving tool provides both keyword and semantic search of corpora such as the Digital Collection Biology (https://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/biologie/nav/index/all) of the Goethe Universitätsbibliothek and title data from BHL and Zobodat.

Bishop Museum Publications
hbs.bishopmuseum.org/pubs-online/index.html
Bishop Museum Bulletins, Memoirs, Special Publications, Occasional Papers, Pacific Insects, Pacific Insects Monographs, Insects of Micronesia, and the Pacific Entomological Survey are conveniently presented and annotated, including notes on publication of volumes and articles. Some PDFs are available for download, including articles from known myriapodologists such as Silvestri and Rémy. The site is usually inaccessible from outside the USA but can be accessed through a VPN with a suitable location.

BUGZ - Bibliography of New Zealand Terrestrial Invertebrates
http://www.bugz.org.nz/WebForms/about.aspx
Full-text electronic archive of the Bibliography of New Zealand Terrestrial Invertebrates 1775-1993. It contains a literature database of 16,080 articles on the terrestrial invertebrates of New Zealand, published between 1775 and 1993 and provides full-text indexing of the more than 200,000 pages of text scanned from the articles of the BUGS bibliography.

Digital Repository of Scientific Institutes (RCIN)
https://rcin.org.pl/dlibra
The Digital Repository of Scientific Institutes (RCIN) was established in 2010 as a result of a bottom-up initiative of Polish institutes. It contains Myriapoda literature, including installments with preserved cover pages and important bibliographical information, for example: "DR H. G. BRONN’S Klassen und Ordnungen des TIER-REICHS wissenschaftlich dargestellt in Wort und Bild. Fünfter Band Arthropoda II. Abteilung: Myriapoda Bearbeitet von Dr. K. W.Verhoeff in Pasing 100. Lieferung. Seite 539 bis 666" (https://rcin.org.pl/Content/87874/s3962_1925_100-101.pdf).

Entomologische Bibliothek - Senckenberg Deutsches Entomologisches Institut
https://www.senckenberg.de/de/institute/sdei/informationszentrum-entomologie/entomologische-bibliothek/#content-0003_3
The digital library offers the following retro-digitized publications of the Senckenberg German Entomological Institute in full text:

  • Arbeiten über morphologische und taxonomische Entomologie aus Berlin-Dahlem
  • Arbeiten über physiologische und angewandte Entomologie aus Berlin-Dahlem
  • Beiträge zur Insektenfauna der DDR
  • Deutsche entomologische National-Bibliothek: Rundschau im Gebiete der Insektenkunde mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Literatur
  • Entomologische Beihefte aus Berlin-Dahlem
  • Entomologische Mitteilungen: (Organ der Wanderversammlungen Deutscher Entomologen)
  • Insekt des Jahres
  • Jahresbericht für das Deutsche Entomologische Institut
  • Katalog der in den Sammlungen des Deutschen Entomologischen Institutes aufbewahrten Typen
  • Supplementa Entomologica

Entomologisk Tidskrift
Between 1880 and 1976 Entomologisk Tidskrift was published by Stockholms Entomologiska Förening and since 1977 by Sveriges Entomologiska Förening. They are continuously working to make more old articles available. Their download page is at https://www.sef.nu/scannade-nummer-av-entomologisk-tidskrift/

Finna.fi - Cultural and scientific treasures from one address
https://www.finna.fi/Content/about_finnafi
Finna.fi is a search service that collects material from hundreds of Finnish organisations under one roof. Using versatile search functions, you can easily access millions of items, free of charge. It includes bibliographic references of scientific papers, which can be exported in interoperable formats and imported into Myriatrix with minimal edits.

Gallica
https://gallica.bnf.fr
Gallica is the digital library of the National Library of France and its partners. Online since 1997, it is enriched every week with thousands of new features and now offers access to several million documents.

HathiTrust Digital Library
https://www.hathitrust.org/
HathiTrust is a partnership of academic and research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.

Heidelberg historic literature – digitized
https://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/Englisch/helios/digi/digilit.html
A literature portal by the University Library of Heidelberg University. Search, read, and download historical literature. Example: The volumes of the Jahresbericht der Gesellschaft für nützliche Forschungen zu Trier can be found at: https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/jahresbericht_trier

Herpetology Notes
Volumes 1-7 can be found at https://www.seh-herpetology.org/journals/herpetology-notes/back-issues and volume 7 (again) onward can be found at https://www.biotaxa.org/hn/issue/archive

J-STAGE
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/
J-STAGE is an electronic journal platform for science and technology information in Japan, developed and managed by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST). In 2002, JST launched the Journal@rchive project for electronically archiving older, historically important paper-based Japanese journals from their first issue to the latest. JST has archived at least 664 journals since 2009.

MPG.PuRe
https://pure.mpg.de
The publication repository of the Max Planck Society. It contains bibliographic citations, abstracts, and full texts of the publications by the Society's researchers, including myriapodological articles published in the well-known journal Amazoniana.

Münchener DigitalisierungsZentrum (MDZ) Digitale Bibliothek
https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en
Works on myriapods are available at this repository, with seemingly permanent URLs. Pages within a work do not seem to have permanent URLs, but can be resolved with their web address. Example:
Koch, Karl Ludwig: Deutschlands Crustaceen, Myriapoden und Arachniden. 22 can be found at https://mdz-nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb10307841-6. The pages for species 6 Julus bilineatus can be found at https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb10307841?page=24,25.

MUSCAT: imprimés et documents électroniques
https://bibliotheques.mnhn.fr/medias/form.aspx?instance=EXPLOITATION&SC=CATALOGUE
A number of electronic books are present in the Muscat catalog from the "Direction des bibliothèques et de la documentation" of the National Museum of Natural History, Paris. For example: "Saussure & Humbert (1872): Études sur les myriapodes" can be found at https://bibliotheques.mnhn.fr/medias/doc/EXPLOITATION/IFD/MNHN_105467_12/etudes-sur-les-myriapodes

National Library of Scotland (NLS)
https://www.nls.uk/ The NLS offers online access to thousands of books, journals, newspapers and databases. Among those, there are the six volumes to the "Supplement to the fourth, fifth and sixth editions of the Encyclopaedia Britannica". Volume 1 contains the "Annulosa" work by Leach (1816).

Norwegian Journal of Entomology
http://www.entomologi.no/journals/nje/nje.htm
The Norwegian Journal of Entomology (ISSN 1501-8415) is the scientific publication of the Norwegian Entomological Society. The journal is issued twice a year and publishes original papers and reviews on taxonomy, faunistics, zoogeography, and general and applied ecology of insects and related terrestrial arthropods.
The journal published:
Meidell, B. (Ed.) (2006): Proceedings of the 13th International Congress of Myriapodology, Bergen, Norway - 25th-29th July 2005. Norwegian Journal of Entomology, 53 (2): 98-99. ISSN/ISBN: 1501-8415. http://www.entomologi.no/journals/nje/2006-2/NJE_53_02_2006.pdf

Project Runeberg
http://runeberg.org
Project Runeberg is a volunteer effort to create free electronic editions of classic Nordic (Scandinavian) literature and make them openly available over the Internet. There can be found the Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift, 3. Raekke (http://runeberg.org/nahitids/), containing the myriapodological works by Frederik Meinert.

RACO - Revistes Catalanes amb Accés Obert
https://raco.cat/raco/index.php/en/home
RACO (Catalan Journals in Open Access) is a cooperative repository where the full-text from articles of scientific, cultural and scholar Catalan journals can be consulted. It provides access to Miscelánea Zoológica 1958-1978 (Print ISSN: 0211-6529, e-ISSN: 2339-7322) and its successors Miscel·lània Zoològica 1979-2000 (e-ISSN: 2339-7330), Animal Biodiversity and Conservation 2001-present, and Arxius de Miscel·lània Zoològica 2003-present.
See also:
Uribe, F.; Ferrer, M. (2003): La revista Miscel·lània Zoològica: apunts per a la seva història. Arxius de Miscel·lània Zoològica, 1: 1-6. https://doi.org/10.32800/amz.2003.01.0001

Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky (SUB-UH)
https://www.sub.uni-hamburg.de/en/service/english.html
German works not in BHL may be available there. Example: Schubart, O. (1923): Über die Diplopodenfauna Schleswig-Holsteins. Die Heimat, 33 (4): 72-75. https://digitalisate.sub.uni-hamburg.de/de/nc/detail.html?tx_dlf[id]=9818&tx_dlf[page]=84

State Library of Victoria
Copies of the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 1854 to 2006 are freely available online at the State Library of Victoria website in their ‘Digitised Collections.’ http://digital.slv.vic.gov.au/R?func=collections&collection_id=2325 will take you to the holdings.

Zobodat - Zoological-Botanical Database
https://www.zobodat.at
A digital, biogeographical database including analysis, documentation and communication facilities. It includes a simple full-text search on the home page, and a faceted literature search interface (https://www.zobodat.at/publikation_series.php). It is possible to export search results in bulk as a CSV file, and full texts of publications can be downloaded in PDF. Search results (full-text matches) as of 17.xi.2021: Onychophora (164), Myriapoda (1221), Euthycarcinoidea (2), Chilopoda (961), Diplopoda (1334), Pauropoda (246), and Symphyla (240).