We’re delighted to share that BHL has been featured in The Guardian’s Age of Extinction series:
The article highlights the extraordinary value of the Biodiversity Heritage Library as a free, open, global resource for biodiversity knowledge, and the importance of this moment as BHL enters its next chapter as an independent consortium.
It is a wonderful recognition of the work this community has done over the past 20 years to make biodiversity literature freely available to people everywhere: researchers, educators, conservationists, artists, historians, citizen scientists, and curious minds around the world.
We have already seen an incredible response. In the first hour after the article went live, BHL received more than USD $1,500 in donations.
Thank you to everyone across the BHL community whose work and support made this story possible.
If you are able to share the article through your institutional or personal networks, it would be a wonderful way to help build momentum while public attention is high: A bonanza for fans of the natural world: the digital library sharing 64m pages of scientific knowledge with everyone | Biodiversity | The Guardian
