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In case you missed it: New in-copyright titles added over the summer

Adding to the second quarter’s successful haul, BHL secured permission for 52 titles in July, August and September. That brings 2016’s total to 108 in-copyright titles thus far!

October 18, 2016byPatrick Randall

Blog Reel, User Stories

The Case of the Mistaken Manakin

Since the end of the twentieth century, the genus name Dixiphia has been associated with the white-crowned manakin. A recent investigation, made possible in part thanks to BHL, demonstrated that Dixiphia did not refer to a manakin at all, but was in fact a junior synonym of the white-headed marsh tyrant (genus Arundinicola). The white-crowned manakin was in need of its own, new genus-group name. The manakin mystery was first discovered by researchers Guilherme Renzo Rocha Brito and Guy M. Kirwan. Following the publication of a book on Cotingas and Manakins, Brito and Kirwan received an inquiry from James A.

October 13, 2016byGrace Costantino

Blog Reel, Campaigns, Featured Books, Page Frights

Monsters in Nature: Frightful Tales from the 19th Century

Today’s book is truly filled with Page Frights! Sea and Land: An Illustrated History of the Wonderful and Curious Things of Nature Existing Before and Since the Deluge, by James W. Buel (1849-1920), highlights some truly horrific creatures and plants, with colorful tales and an abundance of amazing illustrations. You can read about, and see images of, giant prehistoric and contemporary land, air and sea creatures, sometimes in battle with one another and sometimes battling humans–including early man.

October 11, 2016byLaurel Byrnes

BHL News, Blog Reel

BHL Adds Two New European Affiliates

Over the past three months, BHL has welcomed two new European Affiliates: Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire – Lausanne in Switzerland and the Mendel Museum of Masaryk University in the Czech Republic.

October 6, 2016byGrace Costantino

Blog Reel, Campaigns, Featured Books, Page Frights

Sea Monks and Other Page Frights: Celebrate Halloween, Library and Archives Style!

Welcome to Page Frights, a month-long social media celebration of Halloween! All this month (1-31 October), libraries and archives around the world will be sharing spooky, creepy, frightening, and otherwise Halloween-related books and images from their collections on social media with the hashtag #PageFrights.

October 1, 2016byGrace Costantino

BHL News, Blog Reel, User Stories

Rod Page Talks Bioinformatics, Linked Data, and Primary Literature at the Smithsonian

On 22 September, Dr. Rod Page, Professor at the University of Glasgow and creator of BioStor, gave a presentation at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History Library about ideas for extracting and linking data across biodiversity repositories and primary literature. The talk, entitled “The Sam Adams Talk,” covered topics including phylogenetics, geophylogeny visualizations, linking article and specimen data across repositories, annotations, the biodiversity knowledge graph, and data as source code.

September 29, 2016byGrace Costantino

BHL News, Blog Reel

Stressors and Drivers of Food Security: Evidence from Scientific Collections

The Stressors and Drivers of Food Security: Evidence from Scientific Collections workshop was organized by Scientific Collections International (SciColl) at the National Agricultural Library in Beltsville, Maryland, 19-21 September 2016.

September 27, 2016byMartin R. Kalfatovic

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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.”

Welcome to the Biodiversity Heritage Library Blog

In case you missed it: New in-copyright titles added over the summer

The Case of the Mistaken Manakin

Monsters in Nature: Frightful Tales from the 19th Century

BHL Adds Two New European Affiliates

Sea Monks and Other Page Frights: Celebrate Halloween, Library and Archives Style!

Rod Page Talks Bioinformatics, Linked Data, and Primary Literature at the Smithsonian

Stressors and Drivers of Food Security: Evidence from Scientific Collections

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