Bibliographia marmotarum, an update. Obnovlenie bibliografii po dourkam. [Bibliographia marmotarum, une mise à jour].

Résumé

The aim of this paper is to bring new information on the current state of development of the most comprehensive online bibliography for the Genus Marmota. Ten years after it was launched, the bibliographic resource has evolved. The current state is the result of collaboration of different researchers (French, Russian, American, Uzbek and so on). The data are now approaching ten thousands references.The increase is mainly due to the opening to different fields few explored before Montreux. That is pathology and researches related to Viral hepatitis, and paleontology and archaeology with the discover of marmot remains in a lot of prehistoric deposits. Cultural aspects of Marmots are also considered such as carving, literature or history. In order to facilitate the consultation of Bibliographia Marmotarum, a MySQL database and a PHP search engine have been elaborated. The interface is currently working in French, English and Russian. The use languages could be extended to any other languages using UTF encoding. For many recent papers, abstracts and full texts are available online. A collaboration is expected in the frame of the International Marmot Network to receive all the new references published and when possible the full-text electronic files.