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BHL News, Blog Reel

BHL Recognized for Award at the DLF Forum

During an award ceremony at the Digital Library Federation (DLF) Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on November 7, the Biodiversity Heritage Library was recognized as a co-recipient of the inaugural DLF Community/Capacity award, along with the American Archive of Public Broadcasting. The Community/Capacity Award honors cross-institutional collaboration and constructive, community-minded capacity building in digital libraries, archives, and museums. During the month of June, DLF member organizations voted on an impressive list of 16 nominees to determine the award winner.

November 9, 2016byGrace Costantino

BHL News, Blog Reel

Your Next Purchase Could Help Save Biodiversity and Support Research Worldwide

We live in the midst of a major extinction crisis and widespread climate change. Documenting Earth’s species and understanding the complexities of swiftly-changing ecosystems is more important than ever before. To do this, scientists need something that no single library can provide – access to the world’s collective knowledge about biodiversity.

Fortunately, the Biodiversity Heritage Library is revolutionizing scientific research by providing free and open access to the collections of natural history and botanical libraries around the world.

April 12, 2016byGrace Costantino

BHL News, Blog Reel, Campaigns

Happy 10th Anniversary, BHL!

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.

April 11, 2016byGrace Costantino

Blog Reel, User Stories

Basionyms, Synonyms, Authorities: Tracking the Names of Macro- and Micro Algae Through Time

As part of our BHL & Our Users series, we recently caught up with Dr. Roberta Cowan, a specialist in Phycology (taxonomy) and information management. Over the last 19 years, Dr. Cowan has been actively involved in nomenclatural work, notably for Australian algal species. Dr. Cowan was kind enough to provide some background on her work and the role BHL has played in making that work both quicker and easier over the years. Roberta Cowan, PhD In the 1980s a number of countries had nomenclatural plant databases.

December 17, 2013byCarolyn Sheffield

Blog Reel

My Life as a BHL Staffer: Jacqueline Chapman

Have you ever spotted an error in the BHL? Have you ever experienced technical difficulties with downloading digital files from our website? Have you ever looked for an article, journal, or title in our collections and been disappointed to find that it wasn’t in BHL’s collections? Have you ever wanted to thank BHL staff for a particular article, feature, or service? Have you ever had an idea for how the BHL could improve?

If you have, I hope you have taken advantage of our Feedback system and sent your corrections, suggestions, and questions on to us!

August 21, 2013byJacqueline Chapman

Blog Reel, Featured Books

Book of the Week: A Study in Flies

This week, we featured one of our BHL users, Dr. Torsten Dikow, in our regular blog series, BHL and our Users. With a focus on flies in his research, Dr. Dikow identified his favorite book in BHL, which we’re highlighting today as our book of the week.

May 12, 2011byGrace Costantino

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About BHL

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.”

Search results for "label/bhl users"

BHL Recognized for Award at the DLF Forum

Your Next Purchase Could Help Save Biodiversity and Support Research Worldwide

Happy 10th Anniversary, BHL!

Basionyms, Synonyms, Authorities: Tracking the Names of Macro- and Micro Algae Through Time

My Life as a BHL Staffer: Jacqueline Chapman

Book of the Week: A Study in Flies

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