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Below are the titles added in the fourth quarter, in the order permission was secured. As of the writing of this post, only one has been uploaded; the link is provided. Look for the rest as they’re added to the collection; you can check the recent additions, or see all the permission titles available in BHL on the permissions page.

South African National Biodiversity Institute

• Fauna and Flora of Transvaal
• Kirstenbosch Gardening Series
• Onze Tuinen

Nebraska Ornithologists’ Union

• Nebraska Bird Review

Delaware Center for the Inland Bays

• Annual Reports
• CCMP Addendum
• Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan (CCMP)
• Inland Bays Journal
• Scientific Publications & Reports
• State of the Bays
• Three Year Strategic Plan (April 2015-April 2018)

Texas Academy of Science

• Transactions of the Texas Academy of Science (Digitized by Smithsonian Libraries)
• Proceedings and Transactions of the Texas Academy of Science
• Texas Journal of Science

Native Plant Society of Oregon

• Bulletin of the Native Plant Society of Oregon
• Kalmiopsis
• NPSO Occasional Papers

American Iris Society

• Irises (Bulletin of the American Iris Society)

Museo de Historia Natural de Valparaíso

• Anales del Museo de Historia Natural de Valparaíso

KU Biodiversity Institute

• A Checklist of Linneana, 1735-1835 : in the University of Kansas Libraries

Missouri Native Plant Society

• Missouriensis

Southern California Association of Marine Invertebrate Taxonomists

• SCAMIT Newsletter

• Acta XVII Congressus Internationalis Ornithologici

North American Mycological Association

• The Mycophile
• McIlvainea

Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland

• BSBI Conference Reports

Virginia Academy of Science

• Virginia Journal of Science, including Proceedings and Supplements

Societa dei Naturalisti in Napoli

• Bollettino della Societa dei Naturalisti in Napoli

• Acta XVIII Congressus Internationalis Ornithologici, Moscow.

The Northern Territory Field Naturalists’ Club

• The Northern Territory Naturalist

The Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory

• The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory
• The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory, Supplementary Series
• Technical Reports of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory
• Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences Monograph Series

Nova Scotia Institute of Science

• Proceedings of the Nova Scotia Institute of Science

Michigan Botanical Club

• The Michigan Botanist
• The Great Lakes Botanist

Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History

• Field Notebooks: Leo Hickey (1940-2013)
• Field Notebooks: Karl Waage (1915-1999)

Entomological Society of Latvia

• Biodiversity, biogeography and nature conservation in Wallacea and New Guinea

Virginia Natural History Society

• Banisteria

Southern Appalachian Botanical Society

• Castanea
• Castanea: Occasional Papers

The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University

• Contributions of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University

BHL thanks the many individuals and organizations who have so generously allowed their publications to be digitized and made available to the world under open access. If there’s a book or journal you would like to see in BHL, please let us know!

And as always, don’t forget to follow BHL on Facebook, Twitter (@BioDivLibrary), Instagram, Flickr, and Pinterest.

From July to September of this year, BHL received permission for 43 new in-copyright titles, all as part of the Expanding Access to Biodiversity Literature project. This is a slight increase over the numbers added in the first two quarters.

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Below are the 43 titles added in the second quarter, in the order permission was secured. For those that have already been scanned or uploaded, links are available. Look for the rest as they’re added to the collection; you can check the recent additions, or see all the permission titles available in BHL on the permissions page.

Titles in BHL have been digitized/contributed by the rights holders unless otherwise stated.

• Journal of the Alabama Academy of Science

Denver Botanic Gardens

• Avicultural Magazine

Oregon Flora Project

• Opera Botanica, v.42 (1977)

Illinois State Academy of Science

• Transactions

Brooklyn Botanic Garden

• A Teaching Guide to the Trees and Shrubs of Greater New York, Including the Kinds Most Commonly Seen in Cultivation (1933 and 1947 editions)
• Guide to Trees and Shrubs Based on Those of Greater New York: Native, Naturalized, and Commonly Cultivated Exotic Kinds
• Leaflet / Leaflets
• Plants and Gardens
• Plants of the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, New York

Florida Exotic Plant Pest Council and Southeast Exotic Plant Pest Council

Wildland WeedsUniversity of Florida/IFAS Center for Aquatic and Invasive Plants

• Aquaphyte

International Ornithologists’ Union

• IXe Congrès Ornithologique International, Rouen, 9 au 13 Mai 1938 (Digitized by Smithsonian Libraries)

Tulane University

• Tulane Studies in Geology
• Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology

University of Texas Austin Libraries

• Contributions in Marine Science
• University of Texas at Austin Bulletins and Publications

African Violet Society of America

• African Violet Magazine

Ohio Biological Survey

• Ohio Biological Survey Notes

The Natural History Society of Maryland

• Bulletin
• Bulletin of the Maryland Herpetological Society
• Maryland Naturalist
• Maryland: A Journal of Natural History
• Proceedings

Texas Ornithological Society

• Bulletin of the Texas Ornithological Society
• Occasional Publications

Desert Botanical Garden

• Agave
• Saguaroland Bulletin
• The Sonoran Quarterly

Torrey Botanical Society

• Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club

American Ornithological Society

• Proceedings of the XIIIth Ornithological Congress

Museum of Texas Tech University

• Occasional Papers
• Special Publications

Department of Malacology, The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia

• Tryonia

American Daffodil Society

• The Daffodil Bulletin
• The Daffodil Journal

BHL thanks the many individuals and organizations who have so generously allowed their publications to be digitized and made available to the world under open access. If there’s a book or journal you would like to see in BHL, please let us know!

And as always, don’t forget to follow BHL on Facebook, Twitter (@BioDivLibrary), Instagram, Pinterest, and Tumblr.

From April to June of this year, BHL received permission for 36 new in-copyright titles, keeping pace with the 39 added in the first quarter. The Expanding Access to Biodiversity Literature project, BHL staff, and new members and affiliates all contributed to securing permission and are now working to scan and upload. To put that 36 number in perspective, there are about 650 in-copyright titles in BHL, out of 125,000 total–that’s just a half percent, but it’s growing!

BHL licenses content under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 license

Below are the 36 titles added in the second quarter, in the order permission was secured. For those that have already been scanned or uploaded, links are available. Look for the rest as they’re added to the collection; you can check the recent additions, or see all the permission titles available in BHL on the permissions page. Titles in BHL have been digitized/contributed by the rights holders unless otherwise stated.

1. North Carolina Biological Survey and the North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences

• A Distributional Survey of North Carolina MammalsThe Seaside Sparrow, Its Biology and ManagementAtlas of North American Freshwater Fishes (with supplement)Autumn Land-bird Migration on the Barrier Islands of Northeastern North CarolinaEndangered, Threatened, and Rare Fauna of North Carolina (Parts I-IV)Research Vessel Dan Moore station logsBird Life of North Carolina’s Shining Rock WildernessFourth Colloquium on Conservation of Mammals of the Southeastern U.S.

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The first quarter of 2017 saw 39 in-copyright titles added to BHL, setting the pace for another record-breaking year. New international BHL Members and Affiliates, as well as grant projects like Expanding Access to Biodiversity Literature, have contributed to the growing number of recent titles in the collection, as member libraries continue to chip away at digitizing the legacy literature.

Below is the list of titles for which BHL received permission in January, February, and March of 2017. While most of these titles have not yet been digitized, be sure to check the recent additions page, which is updated regularly. Links will also be provided on BHL’s Permissions page once they’re available.

1. Australian Garden History Society

• Australian Garden History

The last quarter of 2016 continued the year’s steady growth in new permissions for in-copyright titles: 46 in October, November, and December, bringing the year-end total to 154! Major drivers of this growth were the Expanding Access to Biodiversity Literature project, staff at BHL participating institutions, and the worldwide BHL user community, which regularly identifies material and recommends it for digitization.

BHL licenses content under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial Share-alike 4.0 license

Below is the list of new titles for which BHL received permission in the fourth quarter of 2016. Note that many of the titles are not yet available in BHL because they are still being digitized or uploaded; check the recent additions page to see if a link has been added for a specific work or peruse In-Copyright Titles on the Permissions page.

American Arachnological Society

1. Journal of Arachnology

Iowa Ornithologists’ Union

1. Iowa Bird Life

Glasgow Natural History Society

1. The Glasgow Naturalist

Instituto de Ciências Biológicas – Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

1. Oreades

Virginia Museum of Natural History

1. Guidebooks
2. Insects of Virginia
3. Jeffersoniana
4. Myriapodologica
5. Special Publications: Checklist of the Millipeds of Middle and North America
6. Memoirs

The Berwickshire Naturalists’ Club

1. The History of the Berwickshire Naturalists’ Club

Carnegie Museum of Natural History

1. Annals of the Carnegie Museum
2. Bulletin of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History
3. Special PublicationsMemoirs of Carnegie Museum

Western Australian Museum

1. Records of the Western Australian Museum

South Africa Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB)

1. Smithiana Bulletin
2. Smithiana Special Publication
3. Fishes of the Southern Ocean
4. Otolith Atlas of Southern African Marine Fishes
5. Biology and Ecology of Fishes in Southern African Estuaries
6. Revision of the Indo-Pacific Dottyback Fish Subfamily Pseudochromineae

American Fern Society

1. Pteridologia

Gulf Coast Research Laboratory

1. Gulf Research Reports
2. Gulf and Caribbean Research

Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union Birds Section

1. Ornithological Report
2. Bird Report

Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies

1. Newsletter of the Cary Arboretum
2. IES Newsletter
3. Occasional Publications of the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
4. EcoFocus

American Malacological Society

1. American Malacological Bulletin
2. Bulletin (American Malacological Union)Annual Reports
3. Annual Meeting / News Bulletin & Annual Report
4. Perspectives in Malacology
5. Proceedings of the 2nd International Corbicula Symposium
6. Entrainment of Larval Oysters

American Association of Zoo Keepers

1. Animal Keepers’ Forum

Wyoming Native Plant Society

1. The Castilleja

Kentucky Society of Natural History

1. Annals of Kentucky Natural History
2. Kentucky Naturalist News

Colorado Native Plant Society

1. Colorado Native Plant Society Newsletter
2. Aquilegia

Biodiversity Journal

1. Biodiversity Journal

Geological Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences

1. Voprosy mikropaleontologii (Questions of micropaleontology)

All over North America, there are organizations that study, preserve, and promote local flora. Called by various names, these organizations fall under the umbrella term “native plant societies.” While they are independent from one state or province to the next, and while some may have a particular focus, such as wildflowers, they have many similarities: their membership is comprised of professional botanists and amateur enthusiasts; they conduct surveys and field research focusing on a specific geographic region; they are actively involved in conservation; and they usually publish a newsletter to keep members apprised of society activities.

Calypso Orchid, Calypso bulbosa. Photo by Gerry Queener. Sage Notes, v.34, no.3 (2012)

Through the Expanding Access to Biodiversity Literature project, BHL has received permission for the newsletters of several native plant societies and chapters:

• The Arkansas Native Plant Society
  • Claytonia

• The California Native Plant Society
  • East Bay Chapter
    • The Bay Leaf
  • Kern Chapter
    • Mimulus Memo
  • Mt. Lassen Chapter
    • The Pipevine

• The Colorado Native Plant Society
  • Aquilegia

• The Delaware Native Plant Society
  • The Turk’s Cap

• The Idaho Native Plant Society
  • Sage Notes

• The Illinois Native Plant Society
  • The Harbinger

• The Wyoming Native Plant Society
  • Castilleja

Just as native plant societies share many similarities, so do their newsletters. They typically contain updates about society-sponsored events and meetings, brief features on a particular plant group or biodiverse area, and occasionally tips for identification and cultivation. They also contain pertinent information about conservation initiatives and the kinds of administrative information common to all organizational newsletters. But the most valuable portion of each newsletter, from a biodiversity perspective, is surely the field trip summary. Field trips are a central activity of all native plant societies.

Turtle Mountains, Mojave Desert. Photo by John Game. The Bay Leaf, January 2016

While original botanical research is typically associated with books and peer-reviewed journals (and some societies do publish their own journals), these newsletters are a goldmine of information about rare plants and the ecologically sensitive areas where they’re found; over the years, repeated field trips to these areas reveal trends in the health and abundance of plants, in the same way that Christmas bird counts document changes in avian populations.

Pogonia ophioglossoides from Rosina Cox Boardman’s Lilies and Orchids (1906), Pl. XVII

For example, the Fall 1981 issue of Claytonia documents the discovery of several rare plants that hadn’t been seen in Arkansas in over 30 years, including the Rose Pogonia orchid, Pogonia ophioglossoides.

Another example: The Harbinger v.30, no.3, contains an account of how a glacial prairie came into possession of the local township after its owner–a farmer who had used the land to graze cattle–passed away. Plans for a baseball field and parking lot were scrapped when the land was found to contain rare plants like Hill’s Thistle (Circium hillii) and Prairie Buttercup (Ranunculus rhomboideus). The article describes efforts by Illinois Native Plant Society members to preserve the land and protect the plants by removing invasives and doing hydrological restoration.

We are grateful to the native plant societies who have generously shared their local expertise by making their newsletters available to researchers through BHL. In addition to the biodiversity information they contain, these publications are a wonderful snapshot of the small, dedicated groups of people working all over the U.S. to document and preserve our native plants.

Are you interested in getting involved in a native plant society near you? If you live in the U.S. or Canada, check this list compiled by the North American Native Plant Society to locate the closest organization.