University of Florida Herbarium Library
About the Herbarium Library Search The Catalog Search Tips Gift Opportunities UF Libraries Catalog Bibliographic Catalog Links	The University of Florida Herbarium Library is a non-circulating reference library of publications pertinent to the naming and classification of vascular plants (plant taxonomy and nomenclature). This collection contains publications with descriptions, geographical ranges and keys for differentiating species of vascular plants, as well as information regarding latin plant names (nomenclature), plant collectors and economic botany. Holdings include books, journals, reprints, microfiche, maps, card files and botanical illustrations. This web-searchable computerized catalog includes only a portion of our book, reprint and journal holdings. In-house file card catalogs and staff are available, by appointment, to assist in locating other holdings. Our staff are also retroactively entering books and journals into the UF Libraries catalog. Herbarium entries are clearly denoted in UF's catalog. The advanced search option with "herbarium" as location will limit searches to herbarium library entries.

SEARCH  (search tips)	Author	Title	Subject	Publisher/Place	Call #
word matching	All / Any / Starts    case sensitive	All / Any / Starts    case sensitive	All / Any / Starts    case sensitive	All / Any / Starts    case sensitive
Sort by:	authortitleseriesserialcall#year		Output: Tabular Bibliographic  Include: subjects?  ISBN?
	Search all entries      Search only new additions in last 30 days /60 days /90 days /180 days /1 year.

Search tips:

• Separate multiple search terms with spaces.
• Enclose phrases in "quotes".
• Searches are case insensitive by default. Check case sensitive for case sensitive searches.
• "Any/All" Search terms must be more than one character long. "Starts with" search terms may be one character or more long.
• Search terms in multiple fields (author, title, subject) are joined as "AND" searches.
• Drop articles (the, a, an, el, los, die etc.) for title, series and serial searches.
• Call # searches are only "starts with" style searches.
• Authors are entered in the catalog in quasi bibliographic form as they appear on the publication. There is currently no author authority/cross-reference file (one will be developed in the future).
• The structure of the database has changed several times during the course of the development of catalog. The data in some older records has not been migrated to the appropriate new fields. E.g.:
  • Year now has it's own field and prints after the author on new records. Year formerly was entered after publication source info. and will print there on older records.
  • Certain series and serial titles are entered in the source field on older records. These series and serial titles are not searchable at present.
  • Most series titles are entered in the title field. These are being migrated to a separate series field so that sorting by series and issue number is possible. E.g.:
    Flora of Pakistan ; no.204 : Chenopodiaceae. Will eventually be entered as:
    Title: Chenopodiaceae
    Series: Flora of Pakistan ; no.204
• International characters (diacriticals) cause a number of problems, including:
  • These characters must be entered in searches to retrieve matches.
  • Diacriticals were entered inconsistently in the database in the past. E.g.: "Hernandez" and "Hernández" are both present in the database.
  • Diacriticals muck up the sort order. E.g., "Hernández" sorts after "Herndon".
  • These problems will be corrected in future versions.

If you don't find what you're looking for in our catalog, try these links to other bibliographic databases.

Other University of Florida Herbarium collections: Vascular Plants | Bryophytes and Lichens Wood | Fungal Paleobotany (affiliated collection)