BHL now includes a new content format called “virtual items,” a new deliverable on our 2024 Technical Priorities. These virtual items are different from traditional items, or journal volumes, in BHL’s collection that have been digitized from the physical version. Virtual items are comprised of individual born-digital articles that have been virtually assembled, in chronological … Read more
BHL collection management revolves around our strategic planning goal #1: Grow BHL into the most comprehensive, reliable, reputable repository of data-rich biodiversity literature, and other original materials, to support a response to global challenges. Please visit BHL collection management to learn more. Our collection development policy underwent significant revision as of November 2022.
BHL encourages users of its collection to critically evaluate content and use it responsibly. The following resource evaluation methods can help researchers identify accurate data, information gaps, and biases, as well as the historical context within which the scholarly record was created: Checklists Fitzpatrick, T. (n.d.). Research Guides: Evaluating Sources: ACT UP: Evaluating sources. Retrieved … Read more
If you are interested in bringing this to our attention, please use our feedback form. BHL can review examples of harmful content to improve our understanding of BHL’s collection and support research on the origins, extent, and impact of harmful biases in the natural sciences. BHL is committed to rethinking the development and curation of … Read more
BHL’s goal is to maintain access to the published record of biodiversity science. We uphold the value that more access to information, even if it contains harmful content, is critical to understanding the historical context in which knowledge has been created. Access to historical documents and records helps researchers gain a more complete understanding of … Read more
BHL is committed to maintaining persistent and open access to the materials in our collection. We make our best effort to incorporate materials that are relevant to the broad scope of biodiversity, high quality digital copies, and free of copyright restriction or otherwise contributed with permission from copyright holder. Due to the nature of the … Read more
BHL welcomes content into its collection that are relevant to the wide range of fields that support biodiversity research. We prioritize the selection of content from our BHL Partner collections as well as biodiversity relevant materials available within the Internet Archive “texts” corpus. For more details about our selection process, please review our collection development … Read more