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BHL and Our Users: Dr. Gary Poore
As you probably know, BHL is a global initiative, with project nodes on every continent in the world except Antarctica. As a global effort, we think it's important to highlight our user communities...
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Building a Biodiversity Heritage Library for Africa
Representatives from BHL are in Cape Town, South Africa, for meetings to promote BHL and to discuss possibilities for developing a BHL-Africa, following the successful model of other regional nodes. A...
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Book of the Week: Familles des Plantes
One of the defining characteristics of the scientific method is the gathering of empirical data.While Carl Linnaeus’ binomial nomenclature technique for systematic naming took hold of scientist, his...
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Book of the Week: The Valdivia Expedition
Deep sea dredging in the twilight zone with Teuthologist Carl ChunThe ValdiviaDeep sea dredging, as a means of scientific discovery, was popularized after the Challenger Expedition (1872-1876) came...
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Book of the Week: A monograph of the Trochilidæ
“A feast of beauty and a source of wonder” was the phrase used by Sacheverell Sitwell, Handasyde Buchanan, and James Fisher to describe the images in ornithologist and artist John Gould’s A monograph...
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The BHL Button: A World Traveler
As we continue our blog posts regarding our recent Berlin and Africa trips (for the BHL-Europe, BHL-Global, and BHL-Africa meetings; stay tuned for upcoming posts on these events), we thought we'd have...
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Book of the Week: The History of American Tree-Huggery
If you are an American, you know who Smokey the Bear is. He's the bear in the ranger hat who has been adamantly spreading the same message for 70+ years: "Only YOU can prevent forest fires" -- and he's...
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Third Annual Global BHL Meeting, Berlin 2012
Representatives at the Third Annual Global BHL Meeting. Berlin, GermanyJune 2012 was an eventful month for BHL. Among them, following the tradition of previous meetings in Woods Hole(2010) and Chicago...
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BHL and Our Users: Dr. Thomas Carefoot & Sea Hares
In December, you heard from BHL User Dr. Thomas Carefoot, a marine biologist specializing in Sea Hares. We asked Dr. Carefoot to write another post for us about sea hares and his work on this topic. We...
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Book of the Week: BHL on Safari
The safari car at Inverdoorn Game ReserveOver the past few weeks, you’ve heard a lot about our recent meetings and world travels in Berlin, Germany and Cape Town, South Africa. The BHL-Europe,...
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Building a BHL Africa
Participants at the BHL-Africa Meeting, June 14-15, 2012, Cape Town, South Africa.The mission of the Biodiversity Heritage Library is to build an open access digital library of biodiversity literature...
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Book of the Week: The Human Side of Birds
Approach Nature anew, as a child might. Royal Dixon, the author of this week's book of the week, The Human Side of Birds (1917), had an eclectic background. His formal credentials included botanist...
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BHL-Australia Celebrates 1st Year
Australia’s biodiversity is unlike any other in the world and in the two centuries since European contact with the continent, the documented observation of the flora and fauna has formed an...
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BHL and Our Users: Margaret Koopman
This past June, BHL-Staff visited Cape Town, South Africa for a series of meetings aimed at developing a BHL for sub-Saharan Africa. The meeting brought together 20 African participants from six...
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Book of the Week: Celebrating Nature's Natural Nightlights
The bioluminescent mushrooms.It’s a damp summer evening. You’re walking through the forest, the canopy overhead blocking any remaining sunlight from trickling to the forest floor. Nearly blind, you...
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Wikimania 2012!
Two missions collide: Free, Open, and Global! Wikipedia we love you. Since 2009, we have been looking at Wikipedia as a way to drive new user traffic to the Biodiversity Heritage Library while...
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Book of the Week: Beebe, Barton and the Bathysphere
"There is one joy of reading, another of painting, and another of writing, but none to compare with the thrill which comes to one who, loving Nature in all her moods, is about to start on a voyage of...
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Book of the Week: The Not-So-Quiet Countryside
The fast-paced life of city-dwelling can make anyone yearn for a relaxing weekend in the country. When imagining such a refuge, the idyllic English countryside often comes to mind. While one might...
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Book of the Week: Shark Week Celebrates its 25th year!
I hope everybody here is taking time out of their day to celebrate the greatest week of the year, shark week. ~Tweeted by MattG124 @MattG124A Great White in Action!Tweeter Matt G124 is just one of...
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Why Predators Protect Biodiversity
In the 1920s, a once-familiar face in the northwestern United States all but disappeared. The majestic gray wolf, a top predator in the Rocky Mountain ecosystem, gave way to the pressures of habitat...
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