All posts from May 2011

BHL News, Blog Reel

BHL four years later, growing and looking towards the future

Four years ago today, the Biodiversity Heritage Library, along with the Encyclopedia of Life, was officially launched during an event at the National Academy of Sciences.At the time of the launch, there were just over a million pages of taxonomic literature available on the site. Today, there are now just short of 34 million pages.

May 9, 2011byNancy Gwinn

Blog Reel, Featured Books

Book of the Week: Happy Cinco de Mayo!

Happy Cinco de Mayo! In honor of the day, we thought we’d pick a book for our Book of the Week that highlights Mexican wildlife. While sorting through our selection of titles with Mexico as a subject, we came across A Selection of the Birds of Brazil and Mexico: The Drawings (1841), by William Swainson, which is packed full of beautiful illustrations of some of the birds of Mexico (not to mention Brazil as well).

May 5, 2011byMichelle Strizever

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The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is the world’s largest open access digital library for biodiversity literature and archives. Headquartered at the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives in Washington, D.C., BHL operates as a worldwide consortium of natural history, botanical, research, and national libraries working together to digitize the natural history literature held in their collections and make it freely available for open access as part of a global “biodiversity community.”

All posts from May 2011

BHL four years later, growing and looking towards the future

Book of the Week: Happy Cinco de Mayo!

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