Bhl Holiday Collection Biodiversity Heritage Library We are delighted to announce a new collaboration between the biodiversity heritage library (bhl) and vanderbilt university’s jean and alexander heard libraries that will provide digital preservation support for the world’s largest open access repository of natural history materials. The biodiversity heritage library (bhl) is the world’s largest open access digital library for biodiversity literature and archival materials. bhl is revolutionizing global research by providing free, worldwide access to knowledge about life on earth.
Biodiversity Heritage Library Ernst Mayr Library The preliminary program for the wikimedia and biodiversity data session at the living data 2025 conference is available. the session, organized by tiago, will happen on wednesday, october 22, and includes talks from several people from bhl and the bhl wiki group, including rod page, siobhan leachman, giovanna fontenelle and mike lichtenberg. Institutions, funders, and individuals are called upon to safeguard the world’s collective biodiversity knowledge. to follow progress and explore ways to contribute, see ongoing #bhltransition updates on the bhl blog. To document earth’s species and understand the complexities of swiftly changing ecosystems in the midst of a major extinction crisis and widespread climate change, researchers need something that no single library can provide — access to the world’s collective knowledge about biodiversity. Content from more than 30 biodiversity journals published on the arpha platform will now be archived in the biodiversity heritage library (bhl), the world’s largest open access digital library for biodiversity literature and archives.
Biodiversity Heritage Library Program News And Collection Highlights To document earth’s species and understand the complexities of swiftly changing ecosystems in the midst of a major extinction crisis and widespread climate change, researchers need something that no single library can provide — access to the world’s collective knowledge about biodiversity. Content from more than 30 biodiversity journals published on the arpha platform will now be archived in the biodiversity heritage library (bhl), the world’s largest open access digital library for biodiversity literature and archives. Each year, the penn libraries observes international open access week, a yearly celebration of open access to information organized by nonprofit oa advocate organization sparc and taking place this year from october 23 29. In celebration of national library week, we would like to highlight the biodiversity heritage library (bhl), an open access digital library for biodiversity literature and archives. The council on library and information resources (clir) awarded the biodiversity heritage library funding in 2015 as part of the digitizing hidden special collections and archives program $491,713 to support increased accessibility to original scientific documentation found in archival field notes. Under the agreement, over 16,000 articles published on pensoft’s self developed arpha platform are now available on bhl. both legacy content and new articles are made available on the platform, complete with full text pdfs and all relevant metadata.
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