Wikipedia:WikiProject Spiders/Resources

• [http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/families World Spider Catalog]
• [http://www.xs4all.nl/~ednieuw/ Spiders from Europe and Australia]
• [http://canadianarachnology.dyndns.org/data/canada_spiders/ Nearctic Spider Database]
• [http://www.britishspiders.org.uk/html/bas.php?page=cl&menu=bas British Arachnological Society] (good for distributions sometimes)
• [http://www.marion.ohio-state.edu/spiderweb/mainpage.htm Ohio Spider Survey]
• [http://www.dmns.org/science/museum-scientists/paula-cushing/paula-cushing-lab-page/updates/colorado-spider-survey Colorado Spider Survey]
• [http://kaston.transy.edu/ The Spiders of Kentucky]
• [https://github.com/spenserg/wikiupdate Tool for building Genera and Family list articles]

• [http://www.spiderzrule.com/answers.htm Spiderz Rule]
• [http://www.arachnology.org/ arachnology.org]

The reference below need to be included in the section of checklist:

Norma-Rashid, Y. & D. Li. 2009. A checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Peninsular Malaysia inclusive of twenty new records. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 57(2): 305-322.

the pdf format can be uploaded online

• [http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/species/37978 The World Spider Catalog]
• [http://www.americanarachnology.org/acn5.pdf Common and Scientific Names of Arachnids]

• [http://www.entomology.cornell.edu/cals/entomology/extension/spideroutreach/resources/identification.cfm So you want to identify a spider?]
• [https://keys.lucidcentral.org/keys/v3/theridiidae/key/Key%20to%20Theridiidae%20spiders%20of%20biosecurity%20importan/Media/Html/Templates/FrontPage.htm Key to identifying New Zealand Theridiidae]

• List of Arachnologists
• List of zoologists by author abbreviation
• German list of zoologists

• [http://salticidae.org Jumping Spiders of the World]
• [http://www.users.qwest.net/~phidippus/ Biology of the Salticid Spiders]
• [http://www.gsd-salt.miiz.waw.pl/ Global Species Database of Salticidae]
• [http://saitis.club.fr/montardi/salticidae/index_e.html Guide to French Salticidae]
• [http://www.miiz.waw.pl/salticid/diagnost/0theor-z/subfamjp.htm Salticid subfamilies]

• [http://home.ncifcrf.gov/research/bja/ Abbreviations of Biological Journals]

• [http://www.biologybrowser.org/bb/Organism/Invertebrata/Arthropoda/Arachnida/index.shtml BiologyBrowser] - many online archives, some free, some needing a subscription.
• [http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/content.html ZOOTAXA] - some articles are public, some require subscription.

• [http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/projects/psyche/ Psyche - A Journal of Entomology]. Online archive from 1957 to 2000. Possibly released under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which essentially means that we can extract pictures and text as we wish and include it in WP, as long as we tell where we got it from; however, if this is correct, {{em|we need to find a link stating this for archived articles rather than new ones}}.
• [http://zookeys.pensoft.net/ZooKeys ZooKeys] – articles are released under CC-BY-4.0 (see [http://www.pensoft.net/page.php?P=28 here]), which means that with correct referencing we can copy text or images.

The journals listed here can be downloaded at no price, but the content may nevertheless be copyrighted.

• [http://www.americanarachnology.org/JOA_online.html Journal of Arachnology] (every issue from 1973 to 2005 online as PDF)
• [http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/ American Museum of Natural History] (many research articles online as PDF)
• [http://www.sekj.org/AnnZool.html Annales Zoologici Fennici 1983-2002]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20030417141513/http://www.springerlink.com/ SpringerLink] seems to have opened their journal archives: 1,500 journals, search by keyword, eg. [http://www.springerlink.com/content/?k=araneae Araneae]{{dead link|date=February 2020|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} (236 results, have fun ;)

If you work in an university, chances are that you have access to one of these publications, even if you are not an arachnologist:

• todo

• Bellmann, Heiko (1997). Kosmos-Atlas Spinnentiere Europas. Kosmos, Stuttgart. ISBN 3440070255 (german)

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