The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is a project for the digitization of literature on biodiversity. It was founded in 2005 and was initially formed by ten (since 2009, twelve) United States and British libraries.
After Gallica and AnimalBase, this is the third broad digitization project for biodiversity literature. In 2008 the importance of Gallica and AnimalBase was passed and the Biodiversity Heritage Library is by far the world's largest ...
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The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is a project for the digitization of literature on biodiversity. It was founded in 2005 and was initially formed by ten (since 2009, twelve) United States and British libraries.
After Gallica and AnimalBase, this is the third broad digitization project for biodiversity literature. In 2008 the importance of Gallica and AnimalBase was passed and the Biodiversity Heritage Library is by far the world's largest digitization project for biodiversity literature.
The Biodiversity Heritage Library is a collaboration of 14 natural history libraries. It is a cornerstone organization of the Encyclopedia of Life. The founding member libraries are:
In May 2009, two new members were added to the consortium:
In November 2011, two new members were added to the consortium:
In May 2009 a European partner project BHL-Europe was founded by 28 consortium partners, mostly European libraries. Shortly thereafter another project BHL-China was launched in Beijing, in...
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