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Auckland Museum joined the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) in 2018 and currently remains the only organisation in Aotearoa New Zealand contributing to the consortium. During my four years working as a technician and coordinator on the project, and with the help of a volunteer, Brianna Vincent, we have added over 25,000 pages, increasing our library of contributions from three to over 100 biodiversity literature items. These items span from 1790 to 2004, covering over 200 years of biological knowledge, and range from field notebooks and sketches to identification guides, records and proceedings, educational textbooks, plant material, cyanotypes (blueprints), and hand-painted illustrations.

Robert Dale Kloppenburg is definitely a dedicated botanist. As of January 2018 – when he celebrated his 97th birthday – he has named 234 plant species, mainly in the flowering genus Hoya, which has been his focus for close to forty years since his retirement. Kloppenburg and the International Hoya Association, of which he is president, have made some generous contributions to the Biodiversity Heritage Library, with funding of the Expanding Access to Biodiversity Literature project.

During the final quarter of 2017 (October to December), BHL received permission for 44 new in-copyright titles, many as part of the Expanding Access to Biodiversity Literature project. 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.

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. BHL licenses content under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 license 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. Alabama Academy of Science Journal of the Alabama Academy of Science Denver Botanic Gardens Green Thumb News Green Thumb Newsletter Mountain, Plain, and Garden The Green Thumb American Association of Zoo Keepers AAZK Bulletin AAZK Newsletter Ruptured Rhino The Avicultural Society Avicultural Magazine Oregon Flora Project Oregon Flora Newsletter Kelly Allred The New Mexico Botanist New York State Ornithological Association The Kingbird The Arboretum Foundation Arboretum Bulletin University of Washington Arboretum Bulletin Washington Park Arboretum Bulletin Lunds Botaniska Förening 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.

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.

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.