Biodiversity Heritage Library
- Biodiversity Heritage Library
- Dates of coverage vary. (BHL)
- The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is an online library providing free and open access to the legacy literature of taxonomy and biodiversity. Materials in BHL are provided by a consortium of natural history and botanical libraries who have come together to digitize the literature of biodiversity held in their collections and to make it available as part of a global 'biodiversity commons.' The bulk of material in the BHL is in the public domain in the United States, meaning that the publication date is prior to 1923. Many of the collections contain rare published literature previously available only to those who could visit the institutions.
Users may search the entire library by multiple access points, read the texts online, or download selected pages or volumes as PDFs. For more information about what types of materials are included in the collection, see BHL's Collection Development Policy.
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- Related Subjects
- Biology
- Botany
- Ecology
- Environmental Studies
- Zoology
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- Related Types
- Book and Text Collections
- Indexes
- Journal Collections
- Science and Technology
