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Welcome to CollectionsWeb, the website of the Research Coordination Network (RCN) for Building a National Community of Natural History Collections . At CollectionsWeb you can find out general information about the RCN and find out how you can get involved in the activities of the RCN. Please refer back to CollectionsWeb.org for up-to-date information and resources.

CollectionsWeb and Southeast Regional Network of Expertise and Collections (SERNEC) are co-hosting a symposium at the 2009 Meeting of the Association of Southeastern Biologists (ASB) in Birmingham Alabama (1-4 April 2009) on Biodiversity Informatics: Progress and Potential in the Southeastern USA.
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CollectionsWeb will host Workshop II: Enhancing the Interface between Collections and Systematists at the Fairbanks Princess Riverside Lodge in Fairbanks, Alaska (19-20 June). > Read More

CollectionsWeb is excited to work with the Coalition on the Public Understanding of Science (COPUS) in an effort to increase public understanding of the nature of science and its value to society. Participants in COPUS are leading the celebration of Year of Science 2009 -- a grassroots celebration of how science works, why science matters, and who scientists are. CollectionsWeb is serving as a thematic hub for the natural history collections.  We want to help you learn how to get involved in this exciting endeavor. > Read More

 
American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS)
   
Natural Sciences Collections
Alliance (NSCA)
   
Society for the Preservation
of Natural History Collections
(SPNHC)
     
 

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