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Expanding Access Training Workshop
On February 4-5, 2016, Smithsonian Libraries hosted staff from the New York Botanical Garden, the Museum of Comparative Zoology (Harvard University), and the Missouri Botanical Garden as part of a...
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The Impact of Coordinated Social Media Campaigns on Online Citizen Science...
Smithsonian staff members recently presented a poster at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, 11-15 February, 2016. The poster, entitled "The...
View ArticleBHL Website Issues 2/23/2016
The BHL website is currently down due to technical difficulties. We are working to correct the issue as soon as possible, and apologize for the inconvenience. Thanks for your patience and stay tuned...
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The Latest News from BHL
There have been some exciting developments in BHL-land, including new projects to add more content to BHL such as in-copyright titles, materials from new contributors, and field notes. These new...
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Humboldt and Bonpland’s Essai sur la géographie des plantes and its significance
By: Randy SmithImage Technician | Metadata Librarian. Peter H. Raven Library, Missouri Botanical GardenOver 210 years after Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland’s work titled Essai sur la...
View ArticleBHL Website Issues Resolved 2/28/2016
UPDATE: Technical issues w/ the BHL website have been resolved. All services back up and running. Thanks for your patience!PREVIOUS MESSAGE: The BHL website is currently down due to technical...
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Early Land Plants and the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation
Bryophytes are green land plants that lack true vascular tissue. They encompass mosses (Bryophyta), hornworts (Anthocerotophyta) and liverworts (Marchantiophyta). Bryophytes form an important component...
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Celebrating Women In Science and Museum Day Live
March is Women's History Month, a month dedicated to celebrating the contributions of women to events in history and contemporary society. In recognition of this celebration, the Smithsonian is...
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BHL Welcomes Two New Affiliates
The Internet Archive, a non-profit institution based in San Francisco and long-time BHL partner in digitization efforts, and the Naturalis Biodiversity Center, one of the world's premier natural...
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Following Early Naturalists of the American West
Yellowstone National Park is famous worldwide for its vast forests, abundance of wildlife - including a wide variety of North American megafauna, and its natural landmarks like Old Faithful Geyser. The...
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Celebrating Careers in Libraries and Museum Day Live!
This Saturday, 12 March, the Smithsonian is coordinating a special edition of its signature Museum Day Live! event in a nationwide effort with museums and cultural institutions around the country to...
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Discovering the Deep Sea
Vanhöffen, Ernst. Die acraspeden Medusen der deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition, 1898-1899. http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2121639. Digitized by MBLWHOI Library.In 1872, the Royal Society of London...
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John Bartram’s Journey to Onondago
By: Mai Reitmeyer Sr. Research Services Librarian American Museum of Natural History Library John Bartram was born in Marple, Pennsylvania in 1699. Although he received limited formal education, he...
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When New England was New
By: Julia Blakely Special Collections Cataloger Smithsonian Libraries Map of eastern North America. Detail of engraved map by Nicolaes Jansz Visscher, made about 1655, not long after Josselyn's first...
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Supporting Biodiversity Research in the High School Classroom
When we talk about BHL's impact on global science, we often focus on how our collections support the work of scientists, researchers, and post-docs. Our collections are also an invaluable tool for...
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Join us Next Week as we Celebrate 10 Years of Inspiring Discovery
2016 marks the 10th anniversary of the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Founded in 2006, BHL inspires discovery and supports global scientific research by providing free, online access to biodiversity...
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Happy 10th Anniversary, BHL!
2016 marks the 10th anniversary of the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL, www.biodiversitylibrary.org)!Since 2006, the Biodiversity Heritage Library has transformed the way scientists, researchers,...
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Your Next Purchase Could Help Save Biodiversity and Support Research Worldwide
We live in the midst of a major extinction crisis and widespread climate change. Documenting Earth's species and understanding the complexities of swiftly-changing ecosystems is more important than...
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BHL at 10: Celebrating Our History
2016 marks the 10th anniversary of the Biodiversity Heritage Library. We're kicking off our year-long celebrations with our #BHLat10 campaign this week, 11-15 April 2016. The campaign celebrates BHL's...
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Celebrating our Collections, #BHLat10 Style
2016 marks the 10th anniversary of the Biodiversity Heritage Library. We're kicking off our year-long celebrations with our #BHLat10 campaign this week, 11-15 April 2016. The campaign celebrates BHL's...
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