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Biodiversity Heritage Library
Sharing knowledge, inspiring discovery
What can be done to prevent future extinctions? One way is to support researchers who seek a better understanding of the biodiversity of this planet.
The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is a global project that is changing the way research is done, by digitizing and sharing biodiversity literature online. BHL makes more than 43 million pages and nearly 100,000 scientific illustrations -- of animals and plants, living and extinct -- freely available to scientists and other users around the world.
The Smithsonian Libraries is one of BHL's founding organizations. All of the images in this exhibition are from book digitized by the BHL, unless otherwise noted.
To see and learn more, go to: biodiversitylibrary.org
"Without Biodiversity Heritage Library, I couldn't do my research."
-- Sabine Brauckmann, historian of science |