Arctos’ NSF SABI Award promises Sustainability for the Future

In May 2021, Arctos was awarded a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation's "Sustained Availability of Biological Infrastructure" (SABI) program. The award was made to three partner institutions (Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Museum of Southwestern Biology, Texas Advanced Computing Center) for critical technical and infrastructure work that will establish a sustainable framework for Arctos. … Continue reading Arctos’ NSF SABI Award promises Sustainability for the Future

First Newsletter of the New Year!

See the latest action-packed newsletter of Arctos! There are technical tips (Github Insights, new Magic Mapping button), new cultural collections taxonomy, and Arctos family news and profiles. In short, something for everyone! Happy New Year's! Using Labels and Milestones in Arctos GitHub New Geography Magic Coordinates Button New Taxonomy Sources for Cultural Collections News from Around … Continue reading First Newsletter of the New Year!

Species+ in Arctos

A new feature in Arctos allows you to check if the specimens in your Arctos search results are CITES listed. From the Arcrtos search results page, select Legal (CITES etc.) under the Manage... drop-down menu. From there, a pop-up window appears with data pulled from Species+ that identifies which catalog records are CITES listed.  

We’d like to Welcome Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum at Brigham Young University into Arctos! 

The Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum is located at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah.  The Natural History Museum is a resource for scientists, students and the community at large.  The museum maintains research collections of vascular and nonvascular plants, invertebrate and vertebrate animals which are a valuable resource to the scientific community as … Continue reading We’d like to Welcome Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum at Brigham Young University into Arctos!