Global Biodiversity Information Facility
Overview:
The Global Biodiversity Information Facility is an international open data infrastructure, funded by governments that provides free and open access to biodiversity data.
Dataset Location: GBIF
Site Location: Global
Site(s) Georeferenced: Yes
Timespan: 1700s - Present
Data collected: species id, location
Conditions for use: GBIF is an open access facility. GBIF contributors are encouraged to use a Creative Commons Zero license, or otherwise CC-BY and CC-BY-NA. GBIF data sharing and use should be clearly attributed.
For more details regarding the data use policy - http://www.gbif.org/terms/licences/data-use
Citation/ Distributing Author: Users should cite the data in accordance with the 'dataset citation provided by the publisher' (As per Data Use Policy).
Best Practices: http://www.gbif.org/usingdata/methods
Supplemental resources:
Publications from GBIF users - http://www.mendeley.com/groups/1068301/gbif-public-library/
Data Applications - http://www.gbif.org/usingdata/dataapplications