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We Need Books to Save Biodiversity
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...
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Latino Natural History: Recognizing the contributions of Latino naturalists
While there are plenty of accounts on the natural history of Latin America, many of the best-known stories are from the point of view of outsiders, especially those from the age of extensive European...
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We Need Books to…Identify New Species
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...
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Fun with Seeds
Seed and Nursery Catalogs at The New York Botanical GardenThanks to a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), The New York Botanical Garden’s The LuEsther T. Mertz Library,...
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We Need Books To...Learn from Past Extinctions
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...
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In memoriam: Cathy Norton, Founding member of BHL and Chair Emerita of the...
The staff of the BHL are saddened to announce the recent death of Cathy Norton. Cathy, former Library Director of the MBLWHOI Library, was a founding member and a guiding force during the early years...
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12 Species of Christmas
You're probably familiar with the famous holiday song The 12 Days of Christmas, first published in England in 1780 as a rhyme. The song most people know today is based on a 1909 arrangement of a...
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We Need Books To...Support Conservation
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...
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Happy New Year! It's Been a Great Year
Welcome to 2015! We're excited for another year to see BHL continue to grow and improve. We have lots of great things planned, particularly in the global sphere. Stay Tuned on our blog, Twitter and...
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The Most Influential Birder Most of Us Have Never Heard Of
This post is a guest contribution from Rick Wright, a writer, lecturer, and professional tour leader. I’m sure it’s just a coincidence, an accident of the calendar, which after all leaves us only 365...
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BHL Welcomes CONABIO as newest Member and Global Node!
Ana Luisa Guzmán, Dr. José Sarukhán, and Dr. Nancy E. Gwinn BHL is thrilled to welcome CONABIO as its newest Member and Global Node!Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad...
View ArticleApply to be a Paid BHL Intern!
We are pleased to announce that the Smithsonian Libraries will be hosting a BHL intern this summer as part of its 2015 Professional Development Internship Program.These paid summer internships are six...
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Original Publications at our Fingertips
Systematics is the branch of biology concerned with classification and nomenclature. It is sometimes used synonymously with taxonomy.In their 1970 publication Systematics in Support of Biological...
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Medicinal Botanicals at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia & Early...
Medicinal Plants and Illustrated Herbals in Philadelphia The Benjamin Rush Medicinal Garden at the College of Physicians of PhiladelphiaDr. Benjamin Rush, a founding Fellow of the College of Physicians...
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Finding Agriculture among Biodiversity: Metadata in Practice
The Biodiversity Heritage Library is committed to providing free and open access to over 500 years of natural history literature from across the globe. Towards that goal, the Library currently contains...
View ArticlePlanned BHL outage 1/21/15 at 5pm CST
There will be a planned outage of the BHL website starting Wednesday 1/21 at 5pm Central (11pm GMT) to last approximately 2 hours. The 2 hour outage is an estimate, but we will work to have services...
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Wildflowers of Ecuador: Watercolors and eBooks
Missouri Botanical Garden, Peter H. Raven Library's first eBook: Wildflowers and Landscapes of Ecuador: The Way We Knew It.Every now and then an unusual and exciting opportunity arises to digitize a...
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A Bridge to the Past: The Writings of William Brewster
William Brewster was a self-educated ornithologist who lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts. From the mid-1800s until his death in 1919, he amassed a tremendous specimen collection and became...
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Notes and News from BHL
We are pleased to announce that the latest BHL Quarterly Report and Newsletter for Winter, 2015, are now available.You'll notice a new format for our Quarterly Reports and a new design for our...
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