Encyclopedia of Life Blog

Here are some of the highlights of the press coverage surrounding the recent launch. Most of the major news media addressed it in various degrees of thoroughness and each article has its own tone, some are very encouraging while others take a more cautionary stance. Check them out and form your own opinions. Here is the New York Times, The BBC, The Boston Globe and Nature News. There is also a site that has links to much of the press coverage of the EOL in the past year, but is also updated daily and includes major news sources as well as blogs and online columns. There are articles ranging all the way back to the first mini-launch in May 2007 posted and more appear daily. Enjoy!

Also, not listed in the site above, or anywhere online, the EoL was described in the latest issue of the Bulletin of the Royal Entomological Society, Antenna (Winter 2008 Volume 32 (1)) on p. 68) in the section called “Embiopteran Tools”. It is exciting to know that the word is being spread about the potential of the EOL to be useful in numerous fields of biology.