Making search simpler The NHM Library and Archives Virtual Library Project
Our Collections
From multiple access points…
... to a single search box.
BHL Archives LibraryCatalogue eJournals NHM Repository Bibliographic databases
NHM Repository: Making your publications more visible, inside and outside the Museum
Biodiversity Heritage Library Image: Almond - Plate 8 from Pomona Franconica ( ) by Johann Mayer of Wurzburg. Natural History Museum Library Over 41 million digitised pages Nearly 3 million NHM pages Connection to taxonomic names via uBio and EOL species pages. Open data services - BHL makes available: – All book, or bibliographic, data – All taxonomic name data – Free to download, re-use, re-purpose, and re-mix by anyone, anywhere User engagement, interaction, feedback. Portal, Darwin‘s Library, article repository, Developer tools, API, OpenURL.
Ryan Schenk (Biodiversity Informatics at Woods Hole, Massachusetts) is using publication dates of works in BHL to build histograms of the number of publications-per-year.
Flexibility and Interoperability
Looking to the future
Go Live: 30 th June 2014
Flexibility For more info… James Hodgkin Tel: +44 (0) Project wiki: Website: BHL: