New online service from Kew

[Mark Jackson]

Kew Gardens has released the first stage in a new online
information resource discovery service called ePIC, the electronic
Plant Information Centre. From the ePIC interface at

www.kew.org/epic/

you can now search for plant information across 4 databases held
at Kew in one action. Over the next 2 years we will be extending
the features, and adding many more databases to this system,
with the intention of ultimately including all of our major collections,
bibliographies, taxonomic and species-based datasets. The first
release includes

a) the International Plant Names Index
b) bibliographic data in the Kew Record of Taxonomic Literature
c) information about the economic uses of plants in the Survey of
Economic Plants of Arid and Semi-Arid Lands
d) our Living Collection of c30,000 plant taxa

Taxacomers are invited to try out the service, and please let us
have your comments by email to epicfeedback at kew.org. Thanks,

Mark


Mark Jackson
Applications Development Manager
Royal Botanic Gardens,
Sir Joseph Banks Building,
Kew,
Surrey
TW9 3AB
United Kingdom
020-8332-5716
M.Jackson at rbgkew.org.uk