2006 BHL is created

10 US and UK partners

Technology Library Science

Biodiversity Heritage Library

20 Members and Affiliates 16 Members • American Museum of Natural History • California Academy of Sciences Library • Cornell University Library • Harvard University Botany Libraries • Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology • Library of Congress • Marine Biological Laboratory and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Library • Missouri Botanical Garden Library • National Library Board (Singapore) • Natural History Museum, London • The New York Botanical Garden • Royal Botanic Garden, Kew • Smithsonian Libraries • United States Geological Survey Libraries • Washington University of St. Louis • University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 4 Affiliates •Academy of Natural Sciences •The Field Museum • Natural History Museum, LA County • Chicago Botanic Garden

Secretariat and Technical Staff August 2011 Program Director

Program Manager

Collections Coordinator

Outreach Manager

Technical Director Programmer Data Analyst

Global BHL BHL Central | BHL Africa | BHL Australia | BHL Brasil | BHL

China | BHL Egypt | BHL Europe | BHL Singapore

44,275,6637 pages 141,770 items 78,960 titles

21 July 2014

Content Growth 2007-2014

2007

2014 146,798 visitors | November 2012

User Statistics: 2013 – 2014 (March)

Unique Visitors: 664,645 / 55,387 per month Page Views: 3,741,640 New vs. Returning: 54.94% vs. 45.06%

233 countries Users in 245 Countries

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87,594 mobile visits (32% iPad) March 2013 – March 2014

35,231 mobile visits (45% iPad) March 2012 – March 2013

Funder: Institute of Museum and Library Services ($174,724 for US partners) Partners: Center for Biodiversity Informatics, Missouri Botanical Garden, (US); National Centre for Text Mining, University of Manchester, (UK); Big Data Analytics Institute and Social Media Lab, Dalhousie University, (CAN). Also participating: Smithsonian Institutions and Encyclopedia of Life.

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“Thank you much for your help. It is so useful as I am right now working on the fishes of Ganges. Moreover it is so great that the library provides classic literature on fishes and it was a dream to me [when] I started my taxonomy ten years back. It is marvellous [what] you did for us which are badly in need of old literature. Thanks a lot.”“Thank you much for your help. It is so useful as I am right now working on the fishes of Ganges. Moreover it is so great that the library provides classic literature on fishes and it was a dream to me [when] I started my taxonomy ten years back. It is marvellous [what] you did for us which are badly in need of old literature. Thanks a lot.”

Currently assiging CrossRef Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) to all monographs. Exploring options with CrossRef for assigning at other levels (e.g. articles/ segments / treatments) Working with members of the bioinformatics community to address other needs for DOIs

Digital Object Identifiers

Field Notes and Archival Materials

Increase agreements with publishers of in copyright materials

US Titles: 249 UK Titles: 69 TOTAL TITLES: 318 US Licensors: 92 UK Licensors: 41

TOTAL LICENSORS: 133

October 2013

Bouchout Declaration Signatory

http://bouchoutdeclaration.org/

Our natural world is a source of food, water, resources, protection and enjoyment that our society needs. The richness and complexity of nature, and the speed of new discoveries made possible by genomic and digital technologies, challenge us to find new ways to benefit from and be better custodians of the natural world. Digital information management systems can bring together the wealth of information now dispersed in a myriad of different documents, institutions, and locations. With such systems, we can harness the benefits of rapid discovery and open up our legacy of over 260 years of biological observations.

“Thank you much for your help. It is so useful as I am right now working on the fishes of Ganges. Moreover it is so great that the library provides classic literature on fishes and it was a dream to me [when] I started my taxonomy ten years back. It is marvellous [what] you did for us which are badly in need of old literature. Thanks a lot.”“Thank you much for your help. It is so useful as I am right now working on the fishes of Ganges. Moreover it is so great that the library provides classic literature on fishes and it was a dream to me [when] I started my taxonomy ten years back. It is marvellous [what] you did for us which are badly in need of old literature. Thanks a lot.”

May I compliment you on this splendid service? The Library's invaluable for my work on seasonal variability of climate and vector-borne disease in British India, 1875-1940.

Looking Forward

In any well-appointed Natural History Library there should be found every book and every edition of every book dealing in the remotest way with the subjects concerned.

Charles Davies Sherborn Epilogue to Index Animalium, March 1922

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