Finding relevant botanical literature, especially protologues or older Flora’s when there was not so much lumping taking place, on the internet is relatively easy if you know what you are looking for. Here is how I begin: For example I have a taxonomic interest in Polygonatum, so I start with http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/home.do, where I get a list of all the species named that Kew has listed, though I have found several Kew has not listed. Then for access to many journals, though not all are open access, Acta Phytotaxonomica Sinica and Acta Botanica Yunnanica are, and have a wealth of PDF’s with information, well, if you read Latin protologues or Chinese. http://www.e-journals.org/botany/ The following two have essentially the same databases, but sometimes have differing papers available. Both are my second and third choices after Kew to find available literature, especially the second link which has an outstanding number of older obscure journals available. http://botanicus.org/, http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ If the previous two fail to turn up what I am searching for I go here; http://scholar.google.com/. Google has done an amazing job, better than even CabAbstracts and Web of Science available in most libraries. Sadly, many articles do not have free access so you can purchase them, find a friend, or go to your closest state university and go to their library and download them. Most universities have guest logins or no password required to use the public university library. JSTOR has an extensive list of digitized journals available through your university or maybe local library. For stuff that even Biodiversity Heritage does not have or takes too long to download go here: http://books.google.com/bkshp/?hl=en&tab=sp. Google has done a better job, with smaller sized PDF’s and an amazing number of journals and books available. A lot of old South American Flora’s are freely available. This also has a number of good journals: http://bibdigital.rjb.csic.es/ing/presentacion.php, and is the only place you can access the old issues of Nuovo Giornale botanico italiano when Pampanini was collecting or naming plants collected from China. This has some stuff but is fairly limited. http://www.doaj.org/ This is the Smithsonian Botany list and has a fair amount of things listed. http://si-pddr.si.edu/dspace/handle/… Besides these few listed I have over 50 botanical journals that I have links to, so I can check on a regular basis for new or old issues that are being digitized. Many journals have the current issue available online until the next is released such as, http://www.brit.org/brit-press/jbrit/. With these methods I have found most of the 110 or so Polygonatum, Heteropolygonatum, and Disporopsis protologues. If all these fail I then resort to an Interlibrary Loan to get a PDF copy of the paper. But even that does not work, so I am still waiting on about 6 protologues and time when I can go search the MOBOT herbarium library. Hope this helps anyone looking for literature. Aaron Floden