Publications Archive

Other electronic publications

While we at the BSBI put our own publications online, plenty of other people are also making publications available for free over the internet. Here are some places you can try:

>> Google Books. Thousands of botanical books available.

>> Internet Archive. Follow the link to texts.

>> Biodiversity Heritage Library

>> Botanicus Digital Library

>> Digital Library of the Real Jardin Botanico

>> Tela Botanica

Watsonia

Our journal, Watsonia, is posted on the web site approximately one year after publication in hard copy, and is freely available to all. Visitors are welcome to download papers for their own purposes, but the copyright remains with the BSBI and they may not be reproduced for distribution or sale without permission.

To find the paper you want, you can download the index to Watsonia Vols  1-24, produced by Chris Boon, the honorary indexer.

Watsonia Index (pdf 577kb)

Watsonia Index (Excel 714kb)

 

NB. If you are interested in submitting a paper to Watsonia, visit the Publications Committee pages.

 

The Digital Archive is an ongoing project to digitise all the BSBI’s publications and make them available freely to everyone. The project is entirely voluntary, and we would welcome offers of help with scanning or provision of electronic versions of publications.

If there is a paper that you would like us to scan, please make a request.

Literature Searches

On the BSBI Database you can search for botanical literature by genus. It is fairly comprehensive for publications on British & Irish plants in the second half of the 20th century.

 

Simpson’s Index

Douglas Simpson’s comprehensive listing of sources of botanical information relating to the British Isles is now a scarce and valuable tome. It was scanned and digitized by Tim Rich at the National Museum of Wales, and is made available here as a download. Abbrevations have been expanded to make it more readable, and Dr Rich would welcome feedback and corrections.

Simpson, N.D. 1960 A Bibliographical Index of the British Flora. Privately printed, Bournemouth. Digitized and expanded by T.C.G. Rich, 2004.

>>> pdf 7.19Mb.

Other Journals

Irish Botanical News

BSBI Conference Reports

BEC Reports

BSBI Recorder

 

 

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