For curators, researchers, institutions
Curate, assess and benchmark your natural history collection
To track your own collections, plan curatorial work and join your institution's team, you need a free CollMan account. Once signed in, the Curation menu unlocks your collection list, your institutions, and every tab around them.
Free. No installation. Your data stays yours.
What unlocks after sign-in
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Collections Score each collection against the 20 criteria, track curatorial activities, loans, publications, permits.
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Institutions Team accounts with shared workspace, role-based permissions, and Atlas Area Manager privileges for the protected areas you manage.
What "Curation" means in CollMan
Curation is everything you do around a collection beyond its scored value — the curatorial work that keeps a collection alive and rising in scientific significance.
20-criteria valuation
Transparent, peer-reviewed score so you can defend each collection's scientific value to funders and reviewers.
Curatorial activities
Plan digitisation, conservation, accessioning and identification work — with an upper-bound forecast of the next score.
Loans
Inbound and outbound specimen loans with expected return dates, status tracking, and overdue flagging.
Publications
Cite-tracking with DOI auto-lookup. Each publication contributes to the collection's impact index.
Permits
Collecting, import, export and Nagoya-ABS permits with PDF storage and expiry warnings.
Benchmark
Anonymous distribution of scores across peer collections of the same type.
GBIF visibility
Live GBIF metrics and a direct link from CollMan to your collection's GBIF dataset.
Team workspace
Institutions, members, roles and Area Manager jurisdiction for the Atlas.
Not ready to sign up?
You can already browse the public outputs of CollMan without logging in:
Atlas of Invertebrate Distribution
Public Atlas: species, occurrences and the protected areas where they were recorded.
Browse the Atlas →Polish Forms of Nature Protection
Public registry of every Polish protected area (national parks, reserves, Natura 2000 sites and more). Sourced from CRFOP.
Open the registry →