There are many ways individuals and institutions can help sustain and strengthen BHL: Support BHL directly by making a one-time or recurring donation through our Ways to Give page Respond to our Call for Support by connecting us with stakeholders, contributing ideas, or providing financial support Advocate for BHL within your institution or professional networks Share … Read more
We do not offer advertising placement or other advertising opportunities for the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this time. If you would like to learn more about our program, or receive notification about potential future opportunities, please subscribe to our mailing list. Tags: promotion, product placement, link placement, banners, link insertion, post placement, in-text link
No, the BHL is strictly a digital library and not able to accept physical materials. BHL is made up of a consortium of institutions that collaboratively digitize their respective collections. As such BHL is not the digital version of a single collection, but a series of collections virtually brought together into our digital repository. Please … Read more
No, BHL can only accept materials into its collection from contributors that are part of our consortium or from materials available within the Internet Archive corpus that conform to our metadata and subject matter standards. We work directly with the Internet Archive to often digitize, as well as store and serve our materials through our … Read more
We have implemented functionality to allow BHL Staff to upload transcriptions in place of the automatically-generated OCR (Optical Character Recognition) text for digitized materials in BHL’s collection. This functionality supports transcriptions generated as part of in-house or crowdsourced transcription projects hosted by BHL Partners. The Show Text tab now indicates whether the text has been: automatically generated … Read more
Promotion of 3rd party content through BHL’s website and communication channels is restricted to entities with which BHL has an official relationship. You are welcome to share projects developed using BHL resources via our BHL Community Forum. Tags: outreach, press room, marketing, public affairs, media, public relations, communication, blog, social media, announcements, alerts
Thank you for your interest in contributing a guest post to the Biodiversity Heritage Library Blog. BHL only accepts solicited guest blog posts. If you would like to submit your resume, qualifications, and examples of your work for consideration, please email [email protected]. After review, your information may be added to our files for future reference. … Read more
The OCR, or Optical Character Recognition, text in BHL is generally automatically-generated and uncorrected, meaning that it may be incomplete or contain errors. We do not yet have a way for users to directly correct the OCR within BHL. We have implemented functionality to allow BHL Partners to upload transcriptions in place of the automatically-generated … Read more
At this time, the Biodiversity Heritage Library is not accepting applications for new consortium partners. We will continue to evaluate our capacity to expand our partnerships into the future and provide updates as appropriate. Please stay tuned. Tags: member, affiliate, contributor, participate, get involved, contribute
Yes. Donations from individuals and organizations are essential to BHL’s long-term sustainability. Support BHL: Ways to Give Your support helps keep BHL free and open, sustain the staff and infrastructure behind it, modernize its technology, and ensure that biodiversity knowledge remains available to researchers, conservationists, educators, communities, and curious readers worldwide. You can support BHL … Read more