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Maps, personal notes, databases, museum collections, and archives may all contain information that can be useful in supporting your research. There are several software systems used within professional ecology that can be useful for research projects. These can help to set your work into a context grounded in practical conservation issues, as well as supplying data on either a wider spatial or temporal basis. One such package, the Conservation Management System (CMS) software,⁴ is used by many countryside managers to produce management plans, whilst Recorder⁵ is the software used by the UK National Biodiversity Network⁶ to record, manipulate, and map biological records. Note: software is often subject to changes in version and may indeed stop being supported, either by the producers or by computer operating systems, over time.