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Happy 10th Anniversary, BHL!

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2016 marks the 10th anniversary of the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL, www.biodiversitylibrary.org)!

Since 2006, the Biodiversity Heritage Library has transformed the way scientists, researchers, and librarians around the world access knowledge about and study life on Earth.

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April 11, 2016by
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Join us Next Week as we Celebrate 10 Years of Inspiring Discovery

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2016 marks the 10th anniversary of the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Founded in 2006, BHL inspires discovery and supports global scientific research by providing free, online access to biodiversity literature from libraries around the world. We’re kicking off our year-long celebrations with our #BHLat10 campaign next week, 11-15 April 2016.

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April 7, 2016by
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BHL Welcomes Two New Affiliates

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The Internet Archive, a non-profit institution based in San Francisco and long-time BHL partner in digitization efforts, and the Naturalis Biodiversity Center, one of the world’s premier natural history museums, based in Leiden, The Netherlands, have joined the Biodiversity Heritage Library as Affiliates. These new partnerships will allow BHL to expand the breadth and depth of its online collection and strengthen the consortium’s technical expertise.
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March 4, 2016by
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Celebrating Women In Science and Museum Day Live

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March is Women’s History Month, a month dedicated to celebrating the contributions of women to events in history and contemporary society. In recognition of this celebration, the Smithsonian is coordinating a special edition of its signature Museum Day Live!
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March 3, 2016by
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Planned Outage of BHL Website for Scheduled Maintenance 3/1/2016 at 6pm CST

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There will be a planned outage of the BHL website for scheduled maintenance on Tuesday, 1 March 2016, beginning at 6pm CST and lasting approximately two hours. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience. During the outage, you can access BHL’s content via Internet Archive.

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February 29, 2016by
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The Latest News from BHL

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There have been some exciting developments in BHL-land, including new projects to add more content to BHL such as in-copyright titles, materials from new contributors, and field notes. These new projects come with new funding as well. We’ve also expanded our consortium with two new affiliates and participated in some fun outreach activities.
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February 24, 2016by
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The Impact of Coordinated Social Media Campaigns on Online Citizen Science Engagement

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Smithsonian staff members recently presented a poster at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, 11-15 February, 2016. The poster, entitled “The Impact of Coordinated Social Media Campaigns on Online Citizen Science Engagement” by Lesley Parilla (Cataloging Coordinator, The Field Book Project) and Meghan Ferriter, Ph.D.
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February 18, 2016by and
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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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