Links to Recommended Online Mycological Resources

• Mycotaxon's list of the online Regional Check Lists in downloadable pdf formats that have been announced in papers published in our journal.

• Kathie Hodge's justly famous VIRTUAL LIBRARY: MYCOLOGY
• An e-mail directory (are you in it?). MYCOLOGISTS ONLINE
• * New MYCONET editors:  Sabine Huhndorf and Thorsten Lumbsch have taken over Myconet from Ove Eriksson. They will continue to try to have an updated classification of Ascomycota and regularly publish notes on new publications regarding the systematics of Ascomycota at generic and all higher levels. No printed volumes are planned, but pdf versions will be produced once a year with a new outline and collected notes. Please feel free to submit notes. They would be very thankful if you could keep them updated by sending pdf files or reprints of your papers and hints to papers that they may have missed. Their email addresses are tlumbsch@fieldmuseum.org and shuhndorf@fieldmuseum.org. The new Myconet website can be found at http://www.fieldmuseum.org/myconet. Any comments on the new website are welcome.
• The Mycological Society of America's HOMEPAGE wih links to its newsletter, Inoculum, and to Job opportunities for mycologists.
• A superior site for tracing fungal names is CABI Bioscience's database, IndexFungorum
• Wondering about the correct author citation to use? Brummitt & Powell's Authors of Plant Names has been maintained and is updated now in the International Plant Names index database. An even more detailed listing is maintained on the Harvard University Herbaria's INDEX OF BOTANISTS, but do your searches on ANY and not on FUNGI to avoid a glitch in the program. Select "publication author" for best information on citing author's names.
• An astonishingly attractive new website has been launched by three French amateur mycologists that is a model for what mycologists can accomplish. It is called Pyrenomycetes of southwestern France, and its URL is http://pyrenomycetes.free.fr/. We urge you to visit this evolving site.
• A truly fascinating non-commercial site devoted to diversity in fungi, managed by Dagmar Triebel, at the Botanische Staatssammlung München, is The Mycology.Net. It's truly worth a visit! There is so much information presented you'll need to allow an hour just to appreciate what great links are presented.
• A particularly active group of mostly European mycologists has ongoing discussions and usually many and often extraordinarily beautiful photographs of fruitbodies, slide mounts, and drawings of microscopic details of collections, mostly of Ascomycetes, but sometimes of anamorphs, myxomycetes and jelly fungi at ASCOfrance where anyone can contribute to the ongoing discussions. There is both a French and an English version available by a simple click. Highly recommended by the Mycotaxon staff.