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Notice: Changes Coming to BHL API Methods on February 27, 2017

Effective February 27, 2017, the API methods GetPartEndNote and GetTitleEndNote will be removed. In addition, the BHL data exports that used the related format have already been removed. The removed BHL API methods and data exports will soon be replaced by methods and exports that use the RIS format, which is supported by a wider range of bibliographic reference managers. Thank you for your patience as we work to implement the RIS-based exports and API methods. If you have any questions, please submit them via our feedback form. You can learn more about our developer tools and APIs here.

February 24, 2017byGrace Costantino

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Information about Upcoming Changes to BHL API

The BHL API will be updated on 25 July 2016 to support changes to the BHL site. These changes will accommodate identifying additional Contributors for Items and Parts of items. First are changes to the API that may affect your existing processes. The Contributor and ContributorID elements in the result sets of API methods that return “Part” information will move. ContributorID will be included as a PartIdentifier in the Identifiers list. Contributor will be included in a new Contributors list. These changes are being made to accommodate more than one contributor per part.

July 12, 2016byJoel Richard

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Information about Upcoming Changes to BHL Commenting Feature

A new and enhanced commenting system is being planned for BHL. The current commenting system will be disabled on July 5. In December 2015, we launched the ability to add comments to pages in BHL books.

June 30, 2016byGrace Costantino

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Planned Outage of BHL Website for Scheduled Maintenance 3/1/2016 at 6pm CST

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.

February 29, 2016byGrace Costantino

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New Feature on BHL: Add Comments to a Book!

UPDATE: A new and enhanced commenting system is being planned for BHL. The commenting system described below has been disabled as of July 5, 2016. | We are pleased to announce that we have added the ability to add comments to books in the BHL website! This new feature will allow you to easily share your discoveries while reading BHL books, highlight interesting content, post your expertise for others to see, engage in conversations about BHL books from directly within BHL, and easily discover all of the great posts from your fellow biodiversity-enthusiasts.

December 2, 2015byGrace Costantino

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Announcing Altmetric and MyTweeps on BHL!

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.

July 20, 2015byGrace Costantino

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Planned BHL outage 2/12/15 at 6pm CST

There will be a planned outage of the BHL website for site maintenance starting Thursday 2/12 at 6pm CST (12am Feb. 13 GMT) to last approximately 3 hours. The 3 hour outage is an estimate, but we will work to have services restored as quickly as possible. Thank you for your patience.

February 11, 2015byGrace Costantino