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My Life as a BHL Staffer
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Our Experience at ALA Midwinter 2012
BHL staff at Global Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) Content Summit in Panama
Book of the Week: The Iconic Biodiversity of Africa
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BHL and EOL at ALA Midwinter 2012!
My Life as a BHL Staffer
Book of the Week: Celebrating that Delightful Fungus Known as the Mushroom
BHL and Our Users: Aaron Sims
Celebrating the Life and Contributions of Charles Davies Sherborn
BHL and Our Users: Gil Taylor
Book of the Week: Big Cats Week!
Support BHL this Holiday Season
Book of the Week: Welcome to the Orchid Family, Bulbophyllum nocturnum!
BHL Staff Meeting Success
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Life and Literature Conference Attendee Interviews: Part 5
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Life and Literature Conference Attendee Interviews: Part 2
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Welcome to the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is a consortium of natural history and botanical libraries that cooperate to digitize and make accessible the legacy literature of biodiversity held in their collections and to make that literature available for open access and responsible use as a part of a global “biodiversity commons.” BHL also serves as the foundational literature component of the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL). BHL content may be freely viewed through the online reader or downloaded in part or as a complete work in PDF, OCR text, or JPG2000 file formats. For help with downloading content, please see the Tutorials page.
To perform a simple search of BHL, enter an EXACT PHRASE such as "proceedings of the academy" (without quotation marks). Entering keywords such as "proceedings academy" will not return results.
For advanced search options, please use the Books/Journals, Authors, Subjects, Scientific Names, or Citation Finder (BETA) tabs above.
Biodiversity Heritage Library uses uBio's TaxonFinder, a taxonomic name recognition algorithm, to search through all of the texts digitized in BHL and extract the scientific names. Searching for a name will return a list of all the individual pages where that name occurs. NOTE: The text is currently uncorrected text automatically generated from Optical Character Recognition (OCR) programs and is of variable quality for each scanned book.
Here are some examples of scientific names that you can find in the Biodiversity Heritage Library:
Corn: Zea mays
Great white shark: Carcharodon carcharias
Tiger: Panthera tigris
African elephant: Loxodonta africana
Monarch butterfly: Danaus plexippus
Domestic dog: Canis lupus familiaris
Strawberry: Fragaria magna
Bottlenose Dolphin: Tursiops truncatus
Annual meadow grass: Poa annua
Blue whale: Balaenoptera musculus
The Citation Finder uses the Biodiversity Heritage Library's OpenURL resolver to search for individual pages
in books and journals. OpenURL provides a standard way for computer systems to link citations to the resource
that the citation describes. (More information about BHL's OpenURL resolver can be found
here.) Citation Finder puts a user-friendly interface on top of the OpenURL
resolver. An example usage of the Citation Finder is locating an article that starts on a particular page in
a particular volume of a journal.
Citations are returned when appropriate page metadata exists. Please let us know
if a page in BHL is not being found by Citation Finder.
