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Biodiversity Heritage Library - Program news and collection highlights from BHL

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We Need Books to…Identify New Species

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This month, we’re publishing a series of blog posts outlining the importance of biodiversity literature, made available for free and open access through the Biodiversity Heritage Library, to today’s scientific research and conservation initiatives.
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December 17, 2014byGrace Costantino
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BHL joins the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

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The Biodiversity Heritage Library has joined the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) as an Associate Participant. GBIF operates through a network of global nodes to develop and maintain an open data infrastructure for sharing digital biodiversity data. As an Associate Participant, BHL will encourage open access and use of biodiversity data among its stakeholders and actively participate in the implementation of the GBIF Work Programme. “BHL provides open and free access to over 250 years of biodiversity information via web services and open APIs,” said Martin Kalfatovic, BHL Program Director.

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August 26, 2014byGrace Costantino
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BHL Nominated for a Zedler Award for Free and Open Knowledge

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BHL is honored to learn that we’ve been nominated for a Zedler Award by Wikimedia Deutschland.  This award acknowledges contributions of individuals, groups or projects who have made contributions to free and open knowledge.

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May 6, 2014byCarolyn Sheffield
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More than just a legacy: Let’s look at the post-1922 literature in BHL

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It’s no secret that the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is a top-notch resource for legacy biodiversity publications. The current U.S. copyright law states that if a title was published over 90 years ago, that title has entered the public domain and is out of copyright. This allows the BHL to digitize and provide access to an astounding number of volumes published before 1923. However, that 1923 cut-off isn’t the end-all, be-all for BHL. An often overlooked aspect of the portal is that it provides access to several post-1922 titles.

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January 1, 2014byAdriana Marroquin and Robin Everly
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Biodiversity Heritage Library Announces Partnership with Digital Public Library of America

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The Biodiversity Heritage Library is pleased to announce that it will serve as a digital content hub within the Digital Public Library of America. The DPLA pilot project, which combines and centralizes links to the collections of participating cultural institutions, launches April 18 in Boston.

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April 9, 2013byGrace Costantino
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BHL Surpasses 40 Million Pages!

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May we have a drum roll please…….The Biodiversity Heritage Library is pleased to announce that we have just surpassed 40 million pages in our online collection!That’s 40 million pages of open access biodiversity literature that was previously available only in the collections of a few select libraries around the world. Making this literature freely available removes these boundaries to access, thus increasing the efficiency of scientific research and discovery of the natural world for anyone with an Internet connection.
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December 26, 2012byMichelle Strizever
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