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Creative Commons. The Creative Commons is a non-profit organization that provides free tools to authors, scientists, artists, and educators so they can easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. The copyright terms available from Creative Commons change the copyright terms from "All Rights Reserved" to "Some Rights Reserved." Atrium uses the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.05 Unported License to allow others to use the application without charge. The URL for the agreement, which appears in Legal Notice and Appendix A sections of this document, is: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/

Encyclopædia Britannica: The Encyclopædia Britannica is source of information about basic taxonomic terms and some taxonomic names. The URL for the Encyclopædia Britannica is on the References tab of the Collection/Specimen display at all levels. When clicked on the References tab, a new browser window or tab opens. If the taxon name is found, a panel similar to this opens:

If the taxon name is not found, the new panel looks like this:

The Encyclopædia Britannica home URL is: http://www.britannica.com/

Getty Online Thesaurus of Geographical Names: The Getty Online Thesaurus of Geographical Names site is the standard for place names in Atrium. Names used in Atrium from the Getty Thesaurus of Geographical names are names for country, region, sub-region and closest town, and are available at: http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/tgn/

Google: Google.com is used to search for information about taxonomic names from the References tab of the Collection/Specimen display at all levels. When clicked, a new browser window or tab opens with the Google search results, similar to:

For more information, the URL for the Google home page is: http://www.google.com/

Online Dictionary: Atrium provides direct access to an online dictionary for a general definition of taxonomic names on the References tab of the Collection/Specimen display at all levels. When clicked, a new browser window or tab is opened. If the taxon name is found, the panel looks similar to:

If the name is not found, the panel looks like this:

For more information, go to the Dictionary home page at: http://dictionary.reference.com/

Wikipedia: Wikipedia is an organization that allows for open contributions to a great online encyclopedia. Anyone is allowed to add information. Atrium links to this encyclopedia on the References tab of the Collection/Specimen display at all levels for general taxonomic information. When clicked, a new browser window or tab is opened and the panel displayed looks like this:

If the taxon name is not found, the displayed panel looks like this:

For more information, the Wikipedia home page is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki