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The Biodiversity Heritage Library provides free & #OpenAccess to 63+ million pages of #biodiversity literature online. 🔗 biodiversitylibrary.org

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🚚 BHL’s servers are moving! Over the next 3 weeks, BHL’s technical infrastructure will move from the Smithsonian in Washington DC to the Field Museum in Chicago. BHL will remain online, with only a temporary change to #FullTextSearch in transit. More: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2026/06/bhl-... 🧪

I've said it before, but @biodivlibrary.bsky.social is seriously impressive! Took me two minutes to get from "wonder where that species name has come from" to reading the relevant part of Hull, F.M. 1946: New syrphid flies from Mississippi.

Today is the International Day for Biological Diversity 🌿 🧪 🌎️ BHL connects the world with the literature that supports biodiversity research, conservation, education & discovery. Donate to keep this knowledge openly accessible worldwide: ancrywkv.donorsupport.co/page/BHLat20 #BiodiversityDay

BHL celebrated 20 years at our 2026 Annual Meeting in London, hosted by @nhm-london.bsky.social and @rbgkew.bsky.social. Partners gathered to reflect on two decades of collaboration and plan the next chapter for open biodiversity knowledge. 🧪 Read more: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2026/05/2026...

📢 If you haven’t discovered it already, check out the BHL Community Forum on Discourse 🌿 📚 Connect with the global BHL community to ask/answer questions, share projects and ideas, discuss tools and data, and explore biodiversity literature. 🧪 🌏 ➡️ forum.biodiversitylibrary.org

From Vesuvius to Venice to BHL: our latest #BHLat20 post by @richdwragg.bsky.social explores Pliny the Elder’s Natural History, including the 1469 Venice edition held by the Natural History Museum, London @nhm-london.bsky.social. Read: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2026/06/plin... 🧪 📖

DYK? BHL retrospectively assigns DOIs to journal articles published long before DOIs existed? This week we DOI'd all the articles in the "Australian Society for Limnology Bulletin" (1969+), a recent upload to BHL available nowhere else online until now. e.g. doi.org/10.5962/p.44... #RetroPIDs 🧪🔗

Every page in BHL represents libraries, museums, archives, scientists, volunteers & communities working together to preserve biodiversity knowledge 🧪 🌱 This #BiodiversityDay, help support the people & infrastructure behind open biodiversity knowledge. Donate: ancrywkv.donorsupport.co/page/BHLat20

My record is correcting after 180 years of error. The author for the plant name 𝘚𝘵𝘦𝘱𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘴 𝘧𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘣𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘢 was Brongn. until I did a search on the Biodiversity Heritage Library (bless it & the Internet Archive) and Kew now accepts 𝘚𝘵𝘦𝘱𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘴 𝘧𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘣𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘢 Jacques from 3 years earlier. I am an amateur.