On 5 September Version 2 of the Encyclopedia of Life [www.eol.org] became available. A press release describes some of the new features, which include easy ways to build communities and collections. The EOL is also now quite fully available in Spanish and Arabic. About 700,000 species now have webpages with content, remarkable progress since the first release in February 2008. Congratulations to the far-flung EOL team!
A sample of news coverage comes from the Guardian in the UK