In "combining modern technologies with a century of field and laboratory research," the New York Botanical Garden's International Plant Science Center "is one of the few institutions worldwide with the resources, collections, and expertise to develop the information needed to understand and manage plant diversity." This website grants considerable access to resources from the Center, including numerous plant databases, digitized rare botanical books, online access to the herbarium collections, and much, much more. Botanists doing fieldwork may be especially interested in dowloading Virtual Herbarium Express -- an "electronic fieldbook" that eliminates the tedious process of transcribing field notes into a database.