A Global Biodiversity Heritage Library

Why be global?

• Biodiversity is global

• The literature is global

– Repatriation

– Accessibility of local information

• “The BHL works collaboratively to make biodiversity literature openly available to the world”

• Leverage global talent, resources & content

• Collaborations on funding & technological advancements

• Developing standards

Europe, China, Brasil, Australia, Egypt,

Sub-Saharan Africa, Singapore, & Mexico

Global Biodiversity Information Facility

• BHL joined as Associate Participant

• GBIF provides open data infrastructure for sharing biodiversity data

• This association allows sharing of expertise, collaboration with new & similar communities

BHL Africa

• $150,000 Award from JRS Biodiversity Foundation to facilitate the growth of BHL Africa

• Joined BHL as Affiliate

• Content: 1557 pages

A plan for phylogenetic studies of Southern African reptiles : proceedings of a workshop held at Kirstenbosch, February 2006. By Bill Branch. SANBI, Pretoria

Ichthyological papers 1931-1943 by J.L.B. Smith. 1969. Rhodes University

BHL Australia• Host of 2014 Annual Global meeting

• Google Cultural Index Exhibits: The Art of Science 1700-1850 & more

• Content: 127,860 pagesThe Birds of Australia by GraciusBroinowski. 1890-91. Stuart & Co. Melbourne

BHL China

• Content: 318,975 pages

an hui sheng ye sheng zhi wu zong he li yong wei yuan hui bian Some Chinese vertebrates. 1912. Glover

Allen et al. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, v. 40 (4).

BHL Egypt• Working on BHL Egypt portal

• Have a partial copy of BHL data

• Content?

BHL Europe

• Content harmonization with IA in process

– 574 pages

• CETAF/EU BON funding opportunities; promotion

• Draft strategy under review

• Training in Exhibition Tool

Contributions to morphometrics / Edited by Leslie F. Marcus, Elisa Bello, Antonio Garcia-Valdecasas. 1993

BHL Mexico

• Newest dual global node & BHL member!

• Preparing content for BHL

Arachnida Araneidea. In Biologia CentraliAmericana Vol I by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge. 1895.

Ensayoornitologico de los troquilideos ócolibries de Mexico..Mexico,IEscalante,1875

BHL SciELO

• Host of Annual 2015 Global meeting: May 6-8

• Content: 17,684 articles plus 8533 pages of books

A defesa contra o ophidismo by Vital Brazil 1911

A natural history of spiders and others curious insects by Eleazar Albin. 1736. GB: John Tilly

BHL Singapore

• Extensive guidance on MOU/

by-laws

• Global node & BHL Member

• Content: 9646 pages

The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise : a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature by Alfred Russel Wallace 1874

Malayan fishes by Charleton Maxwell. 1921. Singapore Methodist Pub. House

Why Not Be Global?

Questions?• http://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/search?q=JRS

• http://jrsbiodiversity.org/grant/south-african-national-biodiversity-institute-2014-2/

• http://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2014/12/new-online-exhibitions-notable-women.html

• http://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/search?q=GBIF