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Biodiversity Heritage Library - Program news and collection highlights from BHL

All posts by Grace Costantino

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NYBG’s Flora Illustrata Wins Two Prestigious Awards

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Flora Illustrata: Great works from the LuEsther T. Mertz Library of The New York Botanical Garden, edited by Susan M. Fraser and Vanessa Bezemer Sellers and published by The New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) – a founding BHL Member – and Yale University Press, has been honored with two prestigious awards: the 2015 American Horticultural Society Book Award and the CBHL 2015 Annual Literature Award. On 4 June, 2015, the American Horticultural Society named Flora Illustrata as one of its 2015 AHS Book Award Winners during the Great American Gardeners Awards Ceremony and Banquet in Alexandria, Virginia.

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July 28, 2015byGrace Costantino
BHL News, Blog Reel, Tech Updates

Announcing Altmetric and MyTweeps on BHL!

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Have you ever wanted to learn more about the books in BHL? Or maybe find out what people are saying on social media about our collections? Or perhaps you’d like to connect with other BHL-enthusiasts? We’re excited to announce that today, as part of our Mining Biodiversity project, we’ve launched two new features on BHL that will allow you to do all of the above! These features are Altmetric and MyTweeps. Altmetric is a UK-based company that offers tools to help track online mentions of a library, publisher, or other entities’ content.
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July 20, 2015byGrace Costantino
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BHL Website Experiencing Technical Difficulties 7/16/2015

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UPDATE: Tech difficulties and performance issues on BHL have been mostly resolved. Another brief outage may be required later today or tonight to complete the recovery. Thanks for your patience. We are currently experiencing technical difficulties that are causing slowness on the BHL website and affecting PDF generation and OCR display. We are working to correct the issue as soon as possible, and apologize for the inconvenience. Thanks for your patience and stay tuned for more updates.
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July 16, 2015byGrace Costantino
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BHL Helps Unravel the Mysteries of the Paraguayan Fauna

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Lack of access to published information about biodiversity is one of the major inhibitors to efficient scientific research today. It’s such a longstanding problem, in fact, that it has a name. The taxonomic impediment. For hundreds of years, scientists and naturalists have published information about Earth’s species in books and journals. Many of these works, however, are available in only a few select libraries, and information about species is often not available within the countries in which those species live. The taxonomic impediment is a very poignant reality for Paul Smith and his colleagues working in Paraguay.
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July 9, 2015byGrace Costantino
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Happy Birthday Waldo Schmitt!

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Do you know what carcinology is?

It is the study of crustaceans, a group of arthropods that includes lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, krill, barnacles and crabs. One of the pre-eminent carcinologists (a scientist who studies crustaceans) of the first half of the twentieth century was Waldo LaSalle Schmitt. Born on this day (June 25) in 1887 in Washington, D.C., Schmitt held various positions within the United States Department of Agriculture, the Smithsonian, and the United States Bureau of Fisheries throughout his career.

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June 25, 2015byGrace Costantino
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Life is Short but Snakes are Long

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“Life is short but snakes are long.” While some may recognize this as a quote from author David Quammen, it’s also the name of a place you can go to get some very cool information about snake natural history and herpetology research. For instance, did you know that at least 15 species of spitting cobras in the genus Naja are capable of spitting their venom through the air as a defensive measure, and that some of them can aim “at targets the size of a human face with >90% accuracy up to 8 feet away”?
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June 18, 2015byGrace Costantino
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Herding the Fuzzy Bits: What do you do after Crowdsourcing?

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So you’ve been crowdsourcing and now you’ve collected lots of fantastic data. What do you do with it? Or maybe you’ve been thinking about crowdsourcing but you’re not sure how you would integrate what you get with the data you already have. The truth is that crowdsourcing often yields lots of fuzzy data and fuzzy solutions for reintegration with existing content.

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June 16, 2015byGrace Costantino
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