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Biodiversity Heritage Library - Program news and collection highlights from BHL

All posts from November 24, 2015

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UPDATE: Technical Issues with BHL Custom PDFs 11/22-11/23

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Problems with the custom PDFs created on the BHL website on 11/22 and 11/23 have now been resolved. The links to access any PDFs that were generated during this time should now work. If you still experience problems, please send us feedback: http://biodiversitylibrary.org/contact. Thanks for your patience!

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November 24, 2015byGrace Costantino
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A Compelling Decade: Reviewing our Progress at the BHL Staff Meeting

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Eight years ago I attended my first Biodiversity Heritage Library staff meeting at the Missouri Botanical Garden, and it was there I was asked to report at the meeting on what I thought the philosophy behind a project to build a global freely accessible online biodiversity library was. My thoughts at that time hovered somewhere around deeply idealistic and altruistic ideas having to do with like-minded libraries collaborating to make the foundation of legacy scientific literature, then accessible only to few, accessible to all. These ideas also related to the growing open access movement.
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November 24, 2015byMatthew Person

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