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Worlds of Wonder: Tracing Microscopy Illustrations on Zooniverse
In the mid-nineteenth century, microscopy became immensely popular with European and American naturalists. As microscopes became more affordable, microscopy societies were established, and numerous...
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#HerNaturalHistory: Campaign Report and Outcomes
This year, the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) and our global partners celebrated Women's History Month with an international social media campaign: Her Natural History: A Celebration of Women in...
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Insects in Amber: Empowering Research on Ancient — and Modern — Insects
Insects trapped in amber. For anyone who has seen Jurassic Park, this description immediately conjures up familiar imagery. In the movie, such a fortuitously-preserved mosquito provided the means to...
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2019 BHL Annual Meeting at Cornell University
The 2019 BHL Annual Meeting was held 29 April - 3 May in Ithaca, New York. Hosted by the Albert R. Mann Library of Cornell University, the Meeting brought together 34 participants from 23 institutions,...
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2019 Spring BHL Newsletter Now Available!
Spring is in the air...and we've been busy at BHL. From our 2019 Annual Meeting to the Her Natural History campaign celebrating women in natural history and updates to our metadata export services,...
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Athanasius Kircher’s Cabinet of Wonder: The Man Who Believed in Everything...
Athanasius Kircher, a 17th century German Jesuit scholar whose name translates to “immortal” (from the Greek “Athanasius”) and “church” (from the German-derived “kircher”), was born on 2 May 1602 in...
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BHL: A Window into the Past, Present, and Future of Caribbean Mammals
The Hispaniolan solenodon is a unique, and at first glance somewhat peculiar, animal. Even its scientific name conveys the unusualness of the species — Solenodon paradoxus. One of two extant solenodon...
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Unearthed: Exploring Paleobiology Literature with Smithsonian Libraries
This blog post is the first in a series from Smithsonian Libraries highlighting Unearthed, a new BHL collection of paleobiology literature curated by Smithsonian Libraries in celebration of the opening...
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BHL Adds New, Easier Article Download Feature
We’ve added functionality to the BHL book viewer that makes it easier to generate a PDF for an article. When you are viewing an article that has been defined in BHL, you can now quickly and easily...
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Charles Lathrop Pack: Pioneering the Idea of the “Victory Garden” in the...
Charles Lathrop Pack was a principal organizer of the Victory Garden movement. Victory gardens, war gardens, or, as they were sometimes called, “food gardens for defense,” are gardens meant to be...
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We’ve Expanded the BHL FAQ!
We’ve expanded the BHL FAQ, providing answers to the most common questions we receive from our users. The FAQ is the best place to find answers to your questions about BHL, our collection, and our...
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Sharks and More: Discovering Animals in the Sixteenth Century and Today
Each year, audiences around the world are gripped with “shark mania”. Since its premier in 1988, the annual Shark Week celebrations have resulted in countless hours of programming devoted to all things...
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BHL Participates in the Global Names Workshop
The Global Names Project held a workshop on 17-19 June 2019 on the Campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The workshop was titled Scientific names indexing and data mobilization of...
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BHL Adds Functionality Allowing Partners to Upload Crowdsourced...
The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) has added functionality to allow BHL Partners to upload transcriptions in place of the automatically-generated OCR (Optical Character Recognition) for archival...
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BHL at the 2019 Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections...
Martin Kalfatovic (BHL Program Director) and Connie Rinaldo (Chair of the BHL Members' Council) attended and presented a poster at the recent Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections...
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Lydia Moore (Hart) Green, Illustrator for The Fishes of Illinois
The first edition of The Fishes of Illinois was published in 1908 by the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History, representing several decades’ work to document species, distributions, and...
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A Heavy Hoax: The “Lying Stones” of Johann Beringer
Fake fossils are a difficult issue for modern paleontologists: there is a booming black market in forgeries, and well-intentioned researchers of the past have even managed to accidentally fool the...
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Between Nature and Society: Empowering Research on the History of Science
Charles Darwin’s Library is a digital edition and virtual reconstruction of the surviving books owned by Charles Darwin. Produced as a collaboration between BHL, Cambridge University Library, the...
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BHL Journal Articles Are Now Discoverable via Unpaywall
Unpaywall finds (legally) open access versions of paywalled literature. Thanks to the work of Richard Orr, Unpaywall’s Lead Developer, BHL is now one of the sources indexed in Unpaywall's database. As...
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2019 Summer BHL Newsletter Now Available!
Enjoying your summer? We are, because we've been busy these past few months and have a lot to share! From crowdsourced transcriptions in BHL to new article download functionality and a new paleobiology...
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