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The John Torrey Papers: Increasing Accessibility with Full Text Transcriptions in BHL

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Since July 2016, the papers of taxonomic botanist John Torrey (1796-1873) have been the focus of a digitization and crowdsourced transcription project at the New York Botanical Garden (NYBG). Digitizing and Transcribing the John Torrey Papers, organized in coordination with the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) and funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Carnegie Corporation of New York, was created in an effort to digitize and make virtually accessible the correspondence of John Torrey and his colleagues, specifically letters received by Dr. Torrey.

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September 24, 2019byRichard Jones
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Live Digitisation for BHL at the Long Night of Museums in Berlin

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At the Long Night of the Museums on 31 August 2019, the library of the Museum für Naturkunde presented its digitisation activities around a current project to index its Drory Library. In addition to particularly impressive books from the collection, which are already accessible in the Biodiversity Heritage Library, two books were digitised which were not yet available in BHL.

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September 19, 2019byElisa Herrmann
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Additions to Text Exports Coming Soon

The BHL website was recently updated for new fields to download content. The TSV Data Exports are being updated to mirror this change. Please review these changes if you rely on the field order instead of the field names of the TSV file.

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August 27, 2019byJoel Richard
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Smithsonian Scientists Name New Fossil Fly Species For the Biodiversity Heritage Library and Smithsonian Libraries

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Two new fossil fly species have been named in honor of the Smithsonian Libraries and the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Sylvicola silibrarius Greenwalt, 2019 and Kishenehnoasilus bhl Dikow, 2019 have been described from specimens collected from the 46-million-year-old Kishenehn Formation of northwestern Montana. The species were published last week in the open access journal Palaeontologia Electronica.

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August 26, 2019byGrace Costantino
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2019 Summer BHL Newsletter Now Available!

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Enjoying your summer? We are, because we’ve been busy these past few months and have a lot to share! From crowdsourced transcriptions in BHL to new article download functionality and a new paleobiology collection curated by Smithsonian Libraries, check out all of the latest program news in the 2019 Summer Newsletter.

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August 20, 2019byGrace Costantino
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BHL Journal Articles Are Now Discoverable via Unpaywall

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Unpaywall finds (legally) open access versions of paywalled literature. Thanks to the work of Richard Orr, Unpaywall’s Lead Developer, BHL is now one of the sources indexed in Unpaywall’s database. As of this week, 43,000 journal articles on the BHL website are now discoverable via Unpaywall.

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August 16, 2019byNicole Kearney and Roderic D. M. Page
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BHL at the 2019 Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC) and Digital Data in Biodiversity Meetings

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Martin Kalfatovic (BHL Program Director) and Connie Rinaldo (Chair of the BHL Members’ Council) attended and presented a poster at the recent Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC) meeting held 25-31 May 2019 and hosted by the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois. The theme of the meeting was “Making the Case for Natural History Collections”.

Connie Rinaldo also attended the Digital Data in Biodiversity meeting hosted by the Yale Peabody Museum 10-12 June 2019. She presented a poster on behalf of herself and Martin Kalfatovic.

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July 18, 2019byConstance Rinaldo
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