Articles from both professional publications and the popular media are listed in spreadsheets that are available for download.

The GBIF Secretariat maintains two bibliographic spreadsheets on the EditGrid website. Access to them is both open and free. To download the spreadsheet database(s) to your own desktop, use the "export" command in the EditGrid File Menu, not the "save as" command.

Both databases are accessible at http://www.editgrid.com/user/gbif_secretariat/, or through the Documents & History page on the GBIF communications website.

"Popular media citations of GBIF" contains entries that refer to articles in print, or on the web, from newspapers, magazines, television, and internet-based publications. As of 19 June 2008, there are 339 entries since 1998.

References to GBIF that have appeared in such journals as Science, Nature, BioScience, The Scientist and others are listed in "Professional publications that cite GBIF". The 444 papers since 1998 (as of 19 June 2008) listed in this spreadsheet are presented in three ways:

• As a single list in a worksheet labelled "All Years, All Types",
• Sorted by year of publication (worksheet tabs indicate the year), and
• Sorted according to type of publication (worksheet tabs labelled) as follows:
• GBIF Data Used - the research utilised GBIF-mediated data in some way
• Discuss GBIF - there is discussion of the GBIF concept contained in the paper
• Mention GBIF - GBIF is briefly mentioned in the paper
• Newsletters - Professional society publications that present GBIF to their membership
• Abstracts - abstracts of papers presented at professional meetings in which GBIF was discussed.

There is also a "Read Me" worksheet that explains the meaning of the sort codes, and provides the date on which the spreadsheet was most recently updated.