NESCent-EOL-BHL Research Sprint
We invite participants for an event that will pioneer the mining of the Encyclopedia of Life (http://eol.org) and the Biodiversity Heritage Library (http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org) to address...
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Revealing and Contextualizing the treasures of the Biodiversity Heritage...
Presentation link: http://t.co/hQD2UnGMRXTwo BHL-related projects were recently presented during the Digital History and Philosophy of Science (Digital HPS) meeting held at Indiana University,...
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Happy Butterfly and Hummingbird Day!
Butterflies are in the Papilionoidea superfamily.Who hasn’t seen the majestic beauty of a butterfly bouncing through the air or hummingbirds hovering near a feeder? If you haven’t you are surely...
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Book of the Week: Die Cephalopoden
This week we are celebrating cephlapods. Not sure what they are? Cephalopods are a group of exclusively marine mollusks that include squid, octopus and nautilus. They are closely related to snails,...
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GBIF Launches New Web Portal!
GBIF's new web portal: http://www.gbif.orgWe're very excited to share that yesterday, October 9, the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) launched their new web portal as part of the 20th...
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Taxonomic research on Southeast Asian land snails
As part of our regular BHL and Our Users series, we’re pleased to introduce Barna Páll-Gergely, a PhD student in the Department of Biology at Shinshu University in Japan. Barna has had a lifelong...
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National Fossil Day : Eurypterus remipes
Do you know your state flower or bird? What about your state fossil? It is okay if you know the first two and not the third. Many don't know their state fossil. There's no better time to discover it...
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BHL Highlighted As A Case Study For Sustainability
We're pleased to announce that the Biodiversity Heritage Library is profiled in Searching for Sustainability: Strategies from Eight Digitized Special Collections, a major study funded by the Institute...
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The TDWG 2013 Annual Conference: my experience as a first timer
Peek of the dome of the Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore via a side streetThe Biodiversity Information Standards group, also known as TDWG, holds an annual conference every year in a different city...
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Tis the season to be thankful!
BHL is a collaborative endeavor, no doubt about it; and it’s been thanks to these collaborations that we have the technical achievements we have. For many reasons, this is a good time to be thankful....
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Quello che era nuovo in TDWG 2013?
Arno River in Florence, ItalyI also had the luck to attend the TDWG Annual Conference in Florence, Italy this past October/November 2013. This year’s topic was “Virtual Communities for Biodiversity...
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BHL's Latest News!
BHL Quarterly Report, Q4 FY13 If you're reading this blog, you probably already know that BHL provides free and open access to millions of pages of biodiversity literature. But did you also know that...
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Book of the Week: Bilder-atlas zur Wissenschaftlich-populären Naturgeschichte...
Leopold Joseph Fitzinger Image: Wikipedia During the early 1800s, visual atlases such as John James Audubon’s The birds of America : from drawings made in the United States and their territories were...
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Things a Librarian Can Learn at TDWG
I was privileged to attend and present at the Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) meeting (see posts on Nov 11:...
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Book of the Week: Don't Tread On Me
Ophidiophobia is the irrational fear of snakes--those slithering, scaly reptiles that have been cast as the archetypal villain throughout history. Their unnatural movements and eerily flexible jaw...
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Book of the Week: The Curious Cures
Take two of these and call in the morning. Those aren't unusual words coming from a doctor if the "two of these" refers to some aspirin or Tylenol. It'd be a little more curious if the prescription...
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Stormy Waters, Venomous Snakes and a Cup of Coffee: My Experience as a BHL...
A blinking cursor on a blank screen. 137 million objects, 8.2 million digitized items, illustrations and photographs, artifacts and first editions, spanning 19 institutions, 9 research centers, and...
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BHL Book Highlights for International Rabbit Day
"Promoting the protection and care of rabbits, both domestic and wild," Saturday September 28 is International Rabbit Day and we couldn't think of a better way to celebrate the Leporidae than to...
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We invite participants for an event that will pioneer the mining of the Encyclopedia of Life (http://eol.org) and the Biodiversity Heritage Library (http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org) to address...
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Revealing and Contextualizing the treasures of the Biodiversity Heritage...
Presentation link: http://t.co/hQD2UnGMRXTwo BHL-related projects were recently presented during the Digital History and Philosophy of Science (Digital HPS) meeting held at Indiana University,...
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