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Researching the American Horseshoe Crab: Connecting 19th and 21st Century...
The venerable science journal the Biological Bulletin has been published in association with the Marine Biological Laboratory of Woods Hole, Massachusetts for over 130 years. Presently, the publisher...
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Smithsonian Scientists Name New Fossil Fly Species For the Biodiversity...
Two new fossil fly species have been named in honor of the Smithsonian Libraries and the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Sylvicola silibrarius Greenwalt, 2019 and Kishenehnoasilus bhl Dikow, 2019 have...
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The BHL website was recently updated for new fields to download content. The TSV Data Exports are being updated to mirror this change. Please review these changes if you rely on the field order instead...
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Getting Fishy with BHL: Empowering Discoveries and Connections Around Museum...
Twitter is a popular communication channel amongst the scientific community. Scientists use the platform to communicate with colleagues and share their research findings with both other scientists and...
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Meredith Wray: BHL Digital Content Intern, Summer 2019
My name is Meredith Wray, and I had the wonderful opportunity to serve as a Biodiversity Heritage Library digital content intern this summer. First off, a little bit about myself. I am from Richmond,...
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Flower Flies and BHL: Empowering Taxonomic Research on Important Pollinators
The family Syrphidae, commonly called hover flies or flower flies, include some 6,000 living species. As “one of the most abundant groups of flower visiting insects”, with adults of most species...
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Live Digitisation for BHL at the Long Night of Museums in Berlin
At the Long Night of the Museums on 31 August 2019, the library of the Museum für Naturkunde presented its digitisation activities around a current project to index its Drory Library. In addition to...
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The John Torrey Papers: Increasing Accessibility with Full Text...
Since July 2016, the papers of taxonomic botanist John Torrey (1796-1873) have been the focus of a digitization and crowdsourced transcription project at the New York Botanical Garden (NYBG)....
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A Day for Worms on BHL
The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is replete with publications which have had a seminal influence on their field. A highly-credentialed member of this category is John H. Day’s A Monograph on the...
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Provenance and Library Stamps at Museums Victoria and on BHL
On the BHL blog, we often focus on the extensive biodiversity information made available through BHL and the innovative ways scientists are using the vast quantities of historical biodiversity data in...
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Our Experience Digitising a Rare Book for the Biodiversity Heritage Library
Recently, we spent three weeks on student placement at Museums Victoria Library and were fortunate enough to be involved with the digitisation of the beautiful title The birds of Norfolk & Lord...
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Exploring Prehistoric Sloths: From Thomas Jefferson to Sloth Poop
I study sloths, and as popular as they have become on the internet, the thing most people do not realize is that we are living in a world majorly deprived of most types of sloth. Today there are only...
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Origins of Australian Ornithology : The Evolution of Australia’s Bird...
It is bird week from the 21st -27th of October. During this week, we would like to share with you some of the wonderful rare reference books on Australian birds and the stories behind them. These books...
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Skeletons in the Stacks: Cheselden’s Spine-Tingling Osteological Atlas
Halloween is just around the corner, and the skeletons have come out of the closet. From front yards reimagined as graveyards to bone-chilling retail displays and party backdrops rattling with more...
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Digging into the Smithsonian Libraries’ Vertebrate Paleontology Collection
I’m Bonnie Felts, and I am a library technician for Smithsonian Libraries at the Natural History Museum. What most people don’t realize about our museum is that we have a total of 11 separate library...
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Now Hiring! Program Manager for the Biodiversity Heritage Library at...
Do you want to help empower global biodiversity research and serve as part of a vibrant, international community dedicated to providing free, worldwide access to biodiversity information? The...
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BHL at Biodiversity Next
In October 2019, more than 700 people from over 75 countries gathered in Leiden, the Netherlands for Biodiversity_Next, a joint conference by GBIF, DISSCo, iDigBio, CETAF, TDWG, and LifeWatch Eric....
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Building the Smithsonian’s Dinosaurs with Materials from the Smithsonian...
My name is Michelle Pinsdorf, and I am a paleontologist and preparator of fossil vertebrates in the Smithsonian National Natural History Museum’s Department of Paleobiology. Preparators’ work can cover...
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2019 Fall BHL Newsletter Now Available!
Autumn is here, at least for those in the Northern Hemisphere. It's been a busy couple of months at BHL and we have a lot of updates to share. From a new species named after the Library to...
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From Canada’s National Capital to “the Rock” — The Tale of a Traveling Book...
The Island of Newfoundland was nicknamed “The Rock” because of its rocky terrain and high cliffs. I’m Elizabeth Smith, and I work at the Canadian Museum of Nature’s Library & Archives as...
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