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Happy New In-Copyright Materials!

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Welcome to 2016 and BHL’s latest batch of in-copyright content! We have 8 new titles to add to the list since our last post. Over the course of 2015, BHL secured the following:

Where possible, BHL acquires permission in the form of a signed license agreement from copyright holders to digitize post-1922 publications.

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January 20, 2016by
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New IMLS-Funded Project: Expanding Access to Biodiversity Literature

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The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has selected the Expanding Access to Biodiversity Literature project as one of nine National Digital Platform Projects funded in 2015 as part of the National Leadership Grants for Libraries program.
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January 15, 2016by
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BHL Receives 2015 Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives award for Field Notes Project

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The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) has selected the “Biodiversity Heritage Library Field Notes Project” for a 2015 Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives award. The award of $491,713 will help support increased accessibility to original scientific documentation found in archival field notes in participating institution collections. Field notes provide valuable, primary research data about species and ecosystems that is often unpublished or unavailable through other sources.
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January 7, 2016by
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Farewell from Technical Director William Ulate

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The dawn of a new year is an exciting time – a time to look forward to new possibilities and embark on new initiatives. Sometimes, however, it can also be tinged with sadness as these new beginnings may require us to say goodbye as well. For us at BHL, 2016 will also mean saying goodbye to William Ulate as our Technical Director.
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December 29, 2015by
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Ondřej Dostál, Director of the Mendel Museum visit the BHL Secretariat Offices

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The BHL Secretariat was honored to be visited by Mgr. Ondřej Dostál, Director of the Mendel Museum of Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic. Dr. Dostál shared information about the digitization work being done at the museum, particularly around the works of Mendel. Special thanks to Tomoko Steen, BHL Member representative from the Library of Congress, who introduced Dr. Dostál to Program Director Martin Kalfatovic and also joined us for our meeting.

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December 28, 2015by
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BHL Annual Report Now Available!

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We are pleased to announce that the Fiscal Year 2015 BHL Annual Report is now available!

Want to learn how our collections grew this past year, or how our audiences engaged with these collections, or explore the many new and exciting citizen science and outreach initiatives we’ve embarked on this year?

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December 23, 2015by
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Tree change for the Biodiversity Heritage Library Australia

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This post originally published on the Museum Victoria blog. See the original post. 

The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is the world’s largest online repository of library and archival materials related to biodiversity. Its aim is to make the world’s biodiversity literature openly available online. In Australia, BHL is managed by Museum Victoria and we have been contributing to this global resource since 2011. We have a team of wonderful volunteers who digitise our rare books and historic journals and prepare the digital versions for publication online.

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December 4, 2015by
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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.”

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