Wikipedia:WikiProject Spiders/Resources

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The resources listed on this page can be useful for collecting information, pictures and the like about spiders. Please add any resources you find useful that are not yet listed here.

Contents 1 Collections and databases 2 General information 3 Spider systematics 4 Spider identification 5 Species describers 6 Jumping spiders 7 Scientific articles 7.1 Mixed license 7.2 Free license 7.3 Free download 7.3.1 Subscription 7.4 Print 7.5 Articles to mine

[edit] Collections and databases

• Spiders from Europe and Australia
• Nearctic Spider Database
• British Arachnological Society (good for distributions sometimes)

[edit] General information

• Spiderz Rule

[edit] Spider systematics

• The World Spider Catalog, Version 7.0
• Common and Scientific Names of Arachnids

[edit] Spider identification

• So you want to identify a spider?

[edit] Species describers

• List of zoologists by author abbreviation
• German list of zoologists
• List of Arachnologists

[edit] Jumping spiders

• Jumping Spiders of the World
• Biology of the Salticid Spiders
• Global Species Database of Salticidae
• Guide to French Salticidae
• Salticid subfamilies

[edit] Scientific articles

• Abbreviations of Biological Journals

[edit] Mixed license

• BiologyBrowser - many online archives, some free, some needing a subscription.
• ZOOTAXA - some articles are public, some require subscription.

[edit] Free license

• Psyche - A Journal of Entymology. Online archive from 1957 to 2000, released under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which essentially means that we can extract pictures and text as we wish and include it in WP, as long as we tell where we got it from :)

[edit] Free download

The journals listed here can be downloaded at no price, but the content may nevertheless be copyrighted.

• Journal of Arachnology (every issue from 1973 to 2005 online as PDF)
• American Museum of Natural History (many research articles online as PDF)
• Annales Zoologici Fennici 1983-2002
• SpringerLink seems to have opened their journal archives: 1,500 journals, search by keyword, eg. Araneae (236 results, have fun ;)

[edit] Subscription

If you work in an university, chances are that you have access to one of these publications, even if you are not an arachnologist:

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[edit] Print

• Bellmann, Heiko (1997). Kosmos-Atlas Spinnentiere Europas. Kosmos, Stuttgart. ISBN 3440070255 (german)

[edit] Articles to mine

• "Sticky Subjects", spider web embedded in amber with prey, may be ancestral to two present day groups of orb weavers. Science News, 24 June 2006 p. 390.