For Personal Care’s continuing focus on the internet, Cyril Lombard, market development manager, PhytoTrade Africa, London office, describes his favourite websites.
Working with its members PhytoTrade Africa prioritises species for research and development and commercialisation. Details of its website are given below.
Search engine
www.prota.org
Plant Resources of Tropical Africa provides information on the 7,000 useful plants of Tropical Africa.
Patents
www.ep.espacenet.com
Searchable website of the European Patent Office.
Search engine
www.scholar.google.com
Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research.
Biological diversity
www.biodiv.org
Website of the Convention on Biological Diversity
Science and development
www.scidev.net
The overall aim of the Science and Development Network is to enhance the provision of reliable and authoritative information on science- and technology-related issues that impact on the economic and social development of developing countries.
Lipid library
www.lipidlibrary.co.uk
Information and experience gained at the Scottish Crop Research Institute has been used to produce a series of web documents, as a free service to lipid analysts everywhere.
Association
www.ctfa.org
Website of the Cosmetic, Toiletry and Fragrance Association.
Association
www.phytotradeafrica.com
Website of PhytoTrade Africa – the Southern African Natural Products Trade Association.
Survey
www.kew.org/ceb/sepasal/internet
Survey of Economic Plants of Arid and Semi-arid Lands, RBG Kew.
Search engine
www.bl.uk/catalogues/listings.html
The British Library’s catalogue site.
