Review of EOL version 2

Key Ideas

All organisms

Open access

Single portal

Common format

Broad participation

Quality control

> 950,000 taxon pages with content

Details

EOL Subjects

>100,000 articlesDistributionMolecular BiologyHabitatConservation StatusComprehensive Description

>10,000 articlesBarcodeThreatsDiagnostic DescriptionSizeTrendsManagementAssociationsMorphologyBenefitsBrief SummaryTrophic Strategy

>1000 articlesReproductionBehaviourLife CycleLife ExpectancyCyclicityDiseases and ParasitesEvolutionMigrationLook AlikesDispersalPopulationBiologyEcology

>1000 articlesGeneticsRisksGrowthPhysiologyCell BiologyLegislationSystematics or PhylogeneticsFunctionalAdaptationsGenomeDevelopmentFossilHistoryTaxonomyType Information

Media

Literature

Maps

>190 content partners

Some EOL content is unreviewed

Community provides quality control

Members

comment, rate

Curators

trust, untrust/hide

Content Partners

unreviewed data trusted data

Data Object Pages

Data Object Pages

Data Object Pages

EOL version 2

launched September 2011

serve global audiences

support user engagement

Reaching out to global audiences: EOL Global Partners

Spanish content:INBio (Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad Costa Rica)

Conabio (Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad)

IABIN (Inter-American Biodiversity Information Network)

Arabic content:New Library of Alexandria

Engaging EOL visitors & contributors