Access Anywhere 
Just-a-Minute Victorian Plants and Just-a-Minute Victorian Animals have been developed to provide professional and amateur biologists with access to encyclopaedic information about Victorian plants and animals in conjunction with detailed distribution data on a range of maps. They are easy-to-use desktop or web-based packages which contain descriptions, photographs, identification aids and distribution data for virtually all species of vascular plants, mammals, birds, reptiles and frogs that live in the wild in this state.  The desktop versions come on, and run from, a USB Flash Drive so they are completely portable and can be installed in less than a minute on any modern Windows-based computer (XP, Vista and 7).  The web-based versions can be accessed from any web-linked computer and have been tested on the five major browsers. 

There are three basic functions for Just-a-Minute packages for which the software and database structures are optimised.

Looking up a plant or animal species  
The packages show, at a glance, the names, classification and conservation status of all 4418 vascular plant species or 780 mammal, bird, reptile and frog species recorded for Victoria.  Each species has a plain English description and most are represented by one or more colour photographs.  You can find the names by typing in a scientific name or a common name, you can even enter an old out of date name and there is a good chance the correct species will be found.  [More]

Find the distribution of any species
Once you have found the species you are looking for you may, with a single mouse-click, plot its distribution - as a series of fine grids - on any one of a range of maps of Victoria.  The maps, which are supplied several resolutions from from 1:1,000,000 to 1:100,000, are all based on a land-use theme showing parks, conservation reserves, wilderness areas, private land and public land.  Each of the maps, or map tiles, can be printed or exported as high-quality vector images for desktop publication and sharing with colleagues. [More]

Finding all plant or animal species for any area 
You may load any of the maps and, using online sketching procedures to delineate an area on that map, search any area of interest .  Clicking a search button will find all the species recorded for that area and the date of the most recent record.  The resulting list can then be printed, exported or queried further.   [More]