If the BHL website is down, please monitor our status on Twitter https://twitter.com/biodivlibrary. If BHL is down, you can access content from the biodiversity collection in Internet Archive — please note that BHL’s collection in IA only includes items contributed from our consortium partners.
If the BHL website is available but page images for books are not showing then this means that the Internet Archive’s website at http://archive.org is down. We partner with the Internet Archive to digitize and host our entire collection and as such their outages directly affect the availability of our materials. We will provide updates on our homepage and via our social media outlet as described above.
If you are experiencing website difficulties for whatever reason, please try http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ to test your connection and if the problem persists, submit your question or problem to our feedback form or (if the form is unavailable due to website outages) email us at feedback@biodiversitylibrary.org describing your issue in as much detail as possible. The more information we have to try and replicate the problem, the better chance we’ll have at being able to address it.
Should you need alternative access to biodiversity resources, please note that our partners have contributed their content to a number of platforms. You can find portions of BHL’s collection in these other repositories:
- Academy of Natural Sciences, Art Collection Guide
- AnimalBase
- American Museum of Natural History Library Digital Repository
- Bibliotheca Alexandrina – contains snapshot of 100,000+ BHL volumes via Advanced Search
- Botanicus
- Cornell University Library Digital Collections
- Digital library of the Caribbean
- Digitale Sammlungen– Bavarian State Library via the Munich Digitization Center
- Europeana
- Field Museum Annual Reports
- Harvard Digital Library Series
- “Dumbarton Oaks Digitization Project. Garden and Landscape Studies. Rare books”
- “Nature Prints from the Botany Libraries”
- Archival collections
- Hathi Trust – primarily Google Books scans but some other things as well
- Gallica (Bibliothèque nationale de France)
- German Botanical Journals Collection, 1753-1914
- Illinois Digital Archives, Chicago Botanic Garden
- Library and Archives Canada Collection Search
- Library of Congress Digital Collections
- Linda Hall Library
- Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle
- New York Botanical Garden Digital Library
- Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC Digital Library
- SciELO.org
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