The Biodiversity Heritage Library: 30 Million Pages of Taxonomic Literature & You

The Biodiversity Heritage Library 30 million pages of taxonomic literature & you Rebecca A. Morin User Services Librarian California Academy of Sciences

http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org

The BHL is…
Part of the Encyclopedia of Life
A consortium of 12 major natural history museum libraries, botanical libraries, and research institutions
Dedicated to digitizing, serving, and preserving the legacy literature of biodiversity
Committed to Open Access
Free for anyone with an internet connection

Members
American Museum of Natural History (New York)‏
Academy of Natural Sciences Philadelphia
California Academy of Sciences (San Francisco)
Field Museum (Chicago)‏
Natural History Museum (London)‏
Smithsonian Institution Libraries (Washington)
Missouri Botanical Garden (St. Louis)‏
New York Botanical Garden (New York)‏
Royal Botanic Garden, Kew
Botany Libraries, Harvard University
Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University
Marine Biological Laboratory / Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Partners & Contributors
Internet Archive
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Library of Congress

Who Pays For It?
MacArthur and Sloan Foundations
Supplemental grants in place for specific development
Support from member institutions
Additional grants underway

Who Uses It?
January-September 2009
431,107 visits
2,162,220 page views
226 countries or territories
Visitors
More than 80% seek information in
Systematics
Taxonomy
Nomenclature

Encyclopedia of Life

Encyclopedia of Life/BHL Interface

EOL  BHL PAGE LEVEL ACCESS @ THE TAXONOMIC NAME

That’s Why!

Multiple Means of Access
BHL: 18.4%
Referring Sites: 29%
EOL
Wikipedia:
Tropicos
Smithsonian
BioOne
Animal Base
Search Engines: 52.2%
Source: Google Analytics (15 March - 03 May 2010)
BHL Survey 2010

What does BHL do for me?
Bibliographies
Name Searching
Taxonomic Intelligence
Complete Items
PDF Creation
APIs
Stable URLs

Bibliographies & Name Searching
How to find literature on Chiroderma salvini
Via EOL
Name search in BHL
Direct URL entry
Works for any uninomial, binomial, or trinomial

BHL Name Search

Name Search URL

Download Complete Items

Download an Article

PDF Generation

APIs http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/api2/docs/docs.html
Access to data:
Scientific Name
Author
Title
Volume
Page

Persistent URLs

What can I do for BHL? HELP ENABLE ARTICLE-LEVEL DISCOVERY! Fill in article information when you create a PDF!

Citebank http://citebank.org/

Citebank

User-Contributed Articles

BHL Survey 2010
Need to Improve
Searching
Working with results
Metadata quality
Online viewer
Wish List
Faster PDF generation
Search inside the viewer
Submit scanning requests
Download hi-res images
SOME SIGNIFICANT FINDINGS

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Image Credits
Fitzinger, Leopold Joseph Franz Johann. Bilder-Atlas zur wissenschaftlich-populären Naturgeschichte der Wirbelthiere. Wien: K.K. Hof-und Staatsdruckerei, 1867. http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/24580 .
Gould, John. The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, under the command of Captain Fitzroy, R.N., during the years 1832 to 1836 : Published with the approval of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury . Pt. 3. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1841. http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/49676 .
Sowerby, James. The British miscellany, or, coloured figures of new, rare, or little known animal subjects many not before ascertained to be inhabitants of the British Isles and chiefly in the possession of the author, James Sowerby . London: R. Taylor & Co, 1806. http://biodiversitylibrary.org/item/91785 .
Curtis's botanical magazine . London ; New York: Academic Press. http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/91677 .
Imperato, Ferrante. Dell'historia naturale di Ferrante Imperato napolitano Libri XXVIII. Nella quale ordinatamente si tratta della diversa condition di miniere, e pietre. Con alcune historie di piante et animali; sin hora non date in luce. Napoli: C. Vitale, 1599. http://www.sil.si.edu/ImageGalaxy/imageGalaxy_enlarge.cfm?id_image=2712 .
Alston, Edward R. Biologia centrali-americana. Mammalia . [London : Pub. for the editors by R. H. Porter], 1879-1882. http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/14587 .
Sulzer, J. H. Dr. Sulzers Abgekürtze Geschichte der Insecten: Nach dem Linaeischen System . Winterthur: Bey H. Steiner, 1776. http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/42901 .
Martens, Eduard von. Biologia Centrali-Americana. Land and freshwater mollusca . [London : Pub. for the editors by R.H. Porter], 1890-1901. http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/14587 .
Taylor, John W. Monograph of the land & freshwater Mollusca of the British isles . Leeds: Taylor brothers, 1894-19. http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47421 .

THANK YOU! Special Thanks to: The Biodiversity Heritage Library Research Division of the California Academy of Sciences SPNCH & CBA/ABC 2010 [email_address] @tiny_librarian http://www.twitter.com/tiny_librarian

The Biodiversity Heritage Library: 30 Million Pages of Taxonomic Literature & You

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