theguardian – GrrlScientist Saturday 13 September 2014.

“…For more than a century, taxonomic information was locked away in a variety of dusty journals in vast libraries, where most people could not find or access it. Meanwhile, science marches onward at an ever-increasing rate of speed, which makes it important to rapidly access this information. To address this problem, Kew created a global online resource that catalogues the taxonomy of monocot plants. (Monocots comprise roughly one-fifth of all flowering plants.) This resource, eMonocot, unlocks biodiversity data for monocots for the first time so anyone — whether a senior-level researcher or a student writing a school report — can access the latest tools for identification and descriptions as well as up-to-date checklists, along with links to other resources. This video tells you more about this project..”