Agency Documents

The Presidents and Presidents-Elect of the American Society of Mammalogists, the American Ornithological Society, and the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists published a letter...

Editorial: Specimens, Collections, and Tools for Future Biodiversity-Related Research

Robert Gropp, co-Executive Director of the American Institute for Biological Sciences, recently published an editorial in BioScience that not only argues for the maintenance of current biological...

ORCID Proposes Using Identifiers to Capture and Expose Facilities Use

User facilities - from research facilities housing specialized equipment, to repositories and...

Natural history collections face fight for survival

Following the very public request for assistance to save collections marked for removal from the University of Louisiana at Monroe, this...

Inside Higher Ed: Science Collections vs. Track and Field

The University of Louisiana at Monroe is the most recent example of budget cuts leading to the divesting of collections.

Agency Documents

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

National Science Foundation

Smithsonian Institution

U.S. Agency for International Development

U.S. Department of Agriculture

U.S. Department of Commerce (NIST, NOAA)

U.S. Department of Defense

U.S. Department of Energy

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (CDC, FDA, NIH)

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

U.S. Department of Interior (BIA, BLM, NPS, Reclamation, FWS, USGS)

U.S. Department of Justice (FBI)

U.S. Department of Transportation

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency