Books, Bytes, Biodiversity: Using the Biodiversity Heritage Library in Your Research
1. Books, Bytes, Biodiversity:
Using the Biodiversity Heritage Library in
Your Research
Rebecca Morin
User Services Librarian
California Academy of Sciences Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History
March 7, 2011
3. Members
American Museum of Natural History (New York)
Academy of Natural Sciences Philadelphia
California Academy of Sciences (San Francisco)
Field Museum (Chicago)
Natural History Museum (London)
Smithsonian Institution Libraries (Washington)
Missouri Botanical Garden (St. Louis)
New York Botanical Garden (New York)
Royal Botanic Garden, Kew
Botany Libraries, Harvard University
Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University
Marine Biological Laboratory / Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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14. Name Searching
How to find literature on
Chiroderma salvini
• Via EOL
• Name search in BHL
• Direct URL entry
• Works for any
uninomial, binomial,
or trinomial
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40. Thank You!
Special Thanks to:
Martin Kalfatovic & Tom Garnett
The BHL Staff Group
Bianca Crowley
Erin Thomas
Grace Cosentino
Robin Everley
rmorin@calcademy.org Twitter: @tiny_librarian
Editor's Notes
New, enhanced ability to search. Easier use, more indexed fields = better results
I browse all the time. This isn’t fuzzy logic searching, so you better spell well and type accurately. Since I find myself turning to BHL for literature in every field and subfield, I browse A LOT.
Concept of EOL(a web page for every species on earth)Image from
Hitting the print icon will open a new window, allowing you to download/print a JPEG of the page.