Membership

Member dues support standards development and the operation of our collaboration platforms.

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The world’s largest biodiversity data aggregators use TDWG data standards to integrate data from more than 1,300 data providers. Our standards are developed and maintained by practicing biodiversity scientists and data managers from around the world. The social infrastructure that TDWG provides enables this international collaboration. TDWG itself depends on its members to operate and maintain its collaboration tools and do the actual work of standards development. The financial support of its members makes TDWG more effective. Please join! TDWG has individual and institutional memberships.

Benefits of membership

  • Voting rights: TDWG members1 can vote in TDWG elections (Executive officers, subcommittee Chairs, rules of governance)
  • Discount on article publishing charges (APCs) in the TDWG Journal Biodiversity Information Science and Standards (BISS)
  • Discount on conference registration (up to five registrations discounted for institutional members)

Membership duration/schedule

Membership is based on the calendar year. We send past members an invoice for membership early in the year, but membership fees can be paid at any time during the year. Membership payments will apply to the current calendar year.

Membership dues

Membership type Annual dues ($USD)
Individual $ 75
Institutional $ 5002

Payment methods

Individual membership can be paid online with a credit or debit card.

Institutions, as well as individuals who need to pay through a formal quote/purchase order/invoice process, should request an invoice by sending an email with name, affiliation, address, and desired membership type individual/institutional to the TDWG Treasurer.

Invoices for membership dues can be paid:

  • online by credit card
  • by bank wire (banking details included with an invoice)
  • by check drawn on a United States bank.

Institutional members 2024

Institution name City
Agriculture Agri-Food Canada Ottawa
ArtDatabanken / Swedish Species Information Centre Uppsala
Atlas of Living Australia, CSIRO Canberra
Battelle, National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) Boulder
Belgian Biodiversity Platform Brussels
Biodiversity Heritage Library Washington, DC
Biodiversity Institute, Univ of Kansas Lawrence, KS
Bishop Museum Honolulu, HI
Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin, FU Berlin Berlin
California Academy of Sciences San Francisco
Catalog of Life Weesp, Netherlands
Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research Canberra
Cornell Lab of Ornithology Ithaca, NY
Distributed System Scientific Collections (DiSSCo) Leiden
Field Museum Chicago, IL
Florida Museum of Natural History Gainesville, FL
GBIF-ES (GBIF España) Madrid
GBIF Norway, University of Oslo Natural History Museum Oslo
Global Biodiversity Information Facility Copenhagen
Harvard University/Ernst Mayr Library/MCZ Cambridge
Illinois Natural History Survey Champaign, IL
Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing
Missouri Botanical Garden Saint Louis, MO
Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona Barcelona
Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle Paris
Museum Victoria Melbourne
National Museum / Národní muzeum Prague
National Museum of Natural History Washington, DC
National Museums Scotland Edinburgh
National Research Collections Australia CSIRO Canberra
Natural History Museum Vienna Vienna
Natural Science Collections Facility (SANBI) Brummeria
NatureServe Arlington, VA
New York Botanical Garden The Bronx, New York
Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre (Artsdatabanken) Trondheim
Own Capital of the Research Institute for Nature and Forest (EV INBO) Brussels
PLAZI Bern
Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh Edinburgh
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Richmond, London
Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria Melbourne
Specify Collections Consortium Lawrence, KS
Swedish Museum of Natural History Stockholm
US Geological Survey Reston

  1. Institutional member votes are weighted by five ( × 5 ) in situations where votes of institutional and individual members must be combined, such as the election of officers. 

  2. Institutional memberships paid in the first quarter (before 31 March) are usually discounted 20% (reduced to $400).