Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL): A Global Resource for Open Access Scientific Literature

Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL): A Global Resource for Open Access Scientific Literature Chris Freeland Director, Center for Biodiversity Informatics, Missouri Botanical Garden Technical Director, Biodiversity Heritage Library #bhlib http://biodiversitylibrary.org @chrisfreeland @ BioDivLibrary

Biodiversity Heritage Library…
is an international consortium of the world’s leading natural history libraries.
scans, stores & serves books, journals & other materials from partners’ holdings.
works with publishers and other rights-holders to obtain permission for digitizing & aggregating in-copyright materials.
makes its data available for free via open access principles:
http://biodiversitylibrary.org

http://biodiversitylibrary.org

BHL Stats
> 34.5 million pages
> 92,000 volumes
Avg 1.25” spine width
1.8mi / 2.9km of shelving
… and growing daily
Usage
~ 4 million page views a year
400,000 unique visitors a year

Biodiversity Heritage Library: A Global Partnership

http://bhl.ala.org.au/

Global BHL Meeting 22-24 Sep 2010, Woods Hole

Preservation of digital resources
Need heterogeneity & diversity to ensure long-term, sustained access. Accomplish this by managing digital resources:
Across multiple geographic locations
Under multiple administrations
With different technologies
Want a meadow… …not a monoculture.

Global BHL Replication & Serving San Francisco Woods Hole London Alexandria Beijing Replicated Data Center Portal Application

IBC18: Electronic publication
Right on!
So…now what?
Whose challenge is it to solve?
Libraries?
Publishers?
Individuals?
BHL doesn’t have all the answers, but collectively we have:
Experience & guidance to share
Systems & infrastructure
Global partnerships
All of us, together

Life & Literature Conference
14-15 Nov 2011, Chicago, USA
Bringing together librarians, biologists, computer scientists, publishers, students, and other stakeholders to set the agenda for biodiversity literature digitizing and its networked environment for the next five years.
Active plenary
Poster session
Code challenge
Registration & more info: http://www.lifeandliterature.org @life_lit

Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL): A Global Resource for Open Access Scientific Literature Chris Freeland Director, Center for Biodiversity Informatics, Missouri Botanical Garden Technical Director, Biodiversity Heritage Library #bhlib http://biodiversitylibrary.org DISCUSSION @chrisfreeland @ BioDivLibrary

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