A legal entity is qualified as a "non-profit organisation", when considered as such by national or international law (international organisations as well as any specialized agency set up by international organisations). Generally, as a consequence, any possible profits have to be reinvested within the organisation itself and cannot be distributed. The quality of being a non-profit organisation has to be proven by your statute.
The Flanders Marine Institute is the coordination and information platform for marine and coastal research in Flanders. It also promotes and supports the international image of Flemish marine scientific research and international marine education as a partner in various projects and networks.
The Atlas of Living Australia (Atlas) contains information on all known species in the Australian region aggregated from museums, herbaria, community groups, government departments, individuals and universities. The ALA gathers, integrates, documents, visualizes and analyzes biodiversity-related data that supports biodiversity research, land and water management, citizen science and specialist interest groups. The ALA's data and code are freely available and its services are based on web services.
Knowledge products such as the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species and Protected Areas
Plazi is an association supporting and promoting the development of persistent and openly accessible digital taxonomic literature. To this end Plazi will:
* Maintain a digital taxonomic literature repository to enable archiving of taxonomic treatments.
* Enhance submitted taxonomic treatments by creating TaxonX and Taxpub XML versions.
* Participate in the development of new models for publishing taxonomic treatments in order to maximize interoperability with other relevant cyberinfrastructure components (e.g., name servers, biodiversity resources, etc...)
