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Inspiring Discovery through Free Access to Biodiversity Knowledge.
The
Biodiversity Heritage Library
(BHL) improves research methodology by collaboratively making biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community.
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National Agricultural Library Joins BHL as a Member
The National Agricultural Library (NAL) has joined the Biodiversity Heritage Library as a Member. Since joining the consortium as an Affiliate in 2014, NAL has contributed over 2 million pages to BHL. As a Member, the NAL will strengthen BHL's coverage of agricultural topics. In particular, the Library will continue to digitize material from its Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection. To date, NAL has contributed over 33,000 catalogs from this collection to BHL. Learn more.
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Seeds in the Stacks: A Facebook Live Event
Join us for
Seeds in the Stacks
, a Facebook Live tour at the
USDA
National Agricultural Library! We'll go behind-the-scenes to explore selections from the Library's collection of over 200,000 seed and nursery catalogs.
WHERE?
WHEN?
3 November 2017 @ 1pm ET
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Oak Spring Garden Foundation Joins BHL as an Affiliate
The
Oak Spring Garden Foundation
(OSGF) has joined BHL as an Affiliate. The Oak Spring Garden Library consists of approximately 19,000 rare books, manuscripts, and artworks related to garden and garden design, horticulture, botanical studies, natural history, voyages, architecture, and decorative arts. As an Affiliate, OSGF will enhance BHL's botanical and horticultural collections by contributing rare and unique material from the Library.
Learn more
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BHL Moves to HTTPS
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BHL is now running on HTTPS. HTTP
is the language that browsers use to communicate with websites, and the S
stands for Secure (i.e. encrypted). These encrypted connections provide better security to BHL users and result in higher rankings on search pages.
Learn more.
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New In-Copyright Titles in BHL
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Preliminary Recommendations from the BHL NDSR Cohort
For the past 9 months, the
BHL NDSR
cohort has been hard at work on projects to improve BHL. This quarter, they released their preliminary recommendations, including conducting usability studies, improving data exports, exploring data visualizations, contributing data to Wikidata, and exposing crowdsourced image data in BHL. Visit the BHL Blog to explore their recommendations in full.
During the final quarter of their residencies, the cohort will focus on tweaking their ideas, developing workflows and proof of concepts, and finalizing these recommendations in a Best Practices White Paper.
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Britain's First Bird Periodical
Sir William Jardine's
Contributions to Ornithology
(1848-1853) was the first ornithological periodical produced in Britain. The series, p
roduced in only five volumes, detailed recent advances in ornithology. It included 94 illustrations, many by Jardine, his daughter Catherine, and possibly his other daughter Helen.
Book of the Month Blog Post By: Kelsey Manahan. Library Assistant. Academy Library and Archives. Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University.
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Australia's First Flora
A Specimen of the Botany of New Holland (1793-1795) is the first published scientific book dedicated to Australian flora. It includes plant descriptions by James Edward Smith and sixteen engravings by James Sowerby based on specimens collected in Australia and drawings produced by artists from the continent, including Thomas Watling, the only known convict artist whose work was used as the basis for a botanical scientific publication!
Book of the Month Blog Post By: Grace Costantino. Outreach and Communication Manager. Biodiversity Heritage Library.
With Contributions From: Diane M. Rielinger. Digital Projects Librarian. Botany Libraries, Harvard University Herbaria.
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Tracing the History of the Hope Diamond
From Tavernier to the French Blue, the
Hope Diamond
has had multiple identities. While the Francillon Memo is the first reference to the Hope as we know it today, the diamond first appeared in another form within The Six Voyages of John Baptista Tavernier (1678).
Book of the Month Blog Post By: Grace Costantino. Outreach and Communication Manager. Biodiversity Heritage Library.
With Contributions By: Kelly Haberstroh. Digitization Librarian. USGS Libraries Program.
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Supporting Worldwide Research
How did BHL help coastal ecologist Dr. Alejandro Bortolus and his colleagues conclude that a long-believed "native" species was actually introduced via human activity? Find out!
How does BHL support Paleontology PhD candidate
Elsa Panciroli's research on Mesozoic mammals?
Find out
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Presentations, Events, and Workshops
Explore some of the BHL presentations, events, and workshops that staff have given and hosted over the past few months.
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TDWG 2017 Annual Conference. October 2017. Presentations by Martin R. Kalfatovic, Mariah Lewis, Mike Lichtenberg, Katie Mika, Dmitry Mozzherin, Thomas M. Orrell, and Carolyn Sheffield.
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Support BHL
Providing researchers with free access to biodiversity knowledge is critical to saving life on Earth. Help us accomplish this goal by
donating to BHL today!
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