Useful sources

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Below are links to the most popular Internet resources with scientific literature in the electronic formats, allowing to read and/or download it for free without registration. The list does not include numerous resources with the metadata on the electronic libraries, websites of publishers and journals, as well as resources where only titles and annotations of electronic publications are available (such as PubMed, JStor, WorldCat, etc.).

• The Russian State Library: search by authors, titles, keywords; reading.
• Scientific Literature: search manually by authors, ordered alphabetically (general list and in each of the sections); either reading or reading and downloading.
• The National Academies Press | Biology and Life Sciences:  search by authors, titles, keywords; either reading or reading and downloading.
• GoogleBook: reading and downloading; for the old books – in full, for the newer books – in part; search by authors, titles, keywords in titles; download (only for old books) or "semi-officially" by links using the freeware Google Books Downloader.
• Google Academy: reading and partial downloading; search by authors, titles, keywords in titles.
• The Biodiversity Heritage Library: books and journals for reading and downloading; search by authors, titles, keywords in titles, and years.
• ScienceDirect: books and journals for downloading; search by authors, titles, keywords in titles, and years.
• Gallica digital library:  books and journals for reading; search by authors, titles, keywords in the titles.
• AnimalBase: books and journals on zoology for reading; search by alphabet, authors and years.
• Botanicus Digital Library: books on botany for reading; alphabetical search by titles, authors.
• Literature. Natural science: books for download; search through the list of authors.
• Library “Flora and Fauna”:books on botany and zoology for download; search by authors and titles.
• "I.Y. Pavlinov’s Library": books on the history and theory of taxonomy for download; manual search through the list.
• BioStor: concentrates publications on natural history collected in the Biodiversity Heritage Library; search by keywords in titles and by publication dates, by journals and publishing houses. For on-screen reading.
• The CyberLeninka Project: search by keywords and download.

THE INTERNET SOURCES

NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUMS IN RUSSIA

• K.A. Timiryazev State Museum of Biology, Moscow
• State Darwin Museum, Moscow
• Y.A. Orlov Paleontological Museum of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
• V.I. Vernadsky State Geological Museum, Moscow
• Zoological Museum of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg

FOREIGN NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUMS

• American Museum of Natural History, New York
• British Museum of Natural History, London
• Hungarian Museum of Natural History, Budapest
• Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
• Alexander Koenig Museum, Bonn
• Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, Seattle
• Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago
• National Museum of Natural History, Washington
• Paris Museum of Natural History
• The Smithsonian Institution, Washington

INSTITUTES AND UNIVERSITIES

• Faculty of Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow
• Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg
• A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
• Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals SoRAN and Zoological Museum, Novosibirsk
• A.A. Borisyak Paleontological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
• Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

VIRTUAL MUSEUMS

• Website "Museums of Russia"

SCIENTIFIC INTERNET PROJECTS

• "Biodiversity of Russia"
• University of Michigan Internet project "Animal Diversity Web"
• International Internet project "Tree of Life"
• Internet project "Animal info" (rare and endangered animals of the world)