Publicity

Publicity for BHL

• Natural History for the Digital Age, by Therese Anne Salah. January 22, 2014. Dal News post annoucning Dalhousie's role in the Digging Into Data Project.
  • http://www.dal.ca/news/2014/01/22/natural-history-for-the-digital-age.html
• Classic Echinoderm& Starfish Taxonomy Monographs Available Online via the Biodiversity Heritage Library! January 7, 2014. http://echinoblog.blogspot.com/2014/01/classic-echinoderm-starfish-taxonomy.html
• Publicity from Cornell on BHL's Purposeful Gaming IMLS Grant, January 2014
  • http://mannlib.cornell.edu/news/new-games-old-seed-catalogs
  • http://news.cornell.edu/essentials/2013/12/games-purpose
• Draft BHL Communications Plan June 4, 2010
• Biodiversity Heritage Library Downloadable Posters
• BHL Portal Screen Shots (medium resolution)
• BHL Public Work Plan September 2007 BHLPublicPlan0907.doc
• Google Blog Search (see BHL in the blogosphere)
• Google News Search
• User feedback Praise and Kudos (from Gemini)
• ALA Annual Meeting, Washington, 2010

• BHL: Open. Extensive. Global.
  • Download. (English) (Chinese - Simplified)
  • YouTube. (English) (Chinese - Simplified)

• Page RDM. (2013) BioNames: linking taxonomy, texts, and trees. PeerJ PrePrints 1:e54v1 http://dx.doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.54v1 https://peerj.com/preprints/54/
• Positive review of BHL and the Mertz Library. Rudi Schmid. A Guide to getting books and journal information cost free. Taxon, Volume 62, Number 4, 21 August 2013, pp. 862-864.
• Summary of BHL's updated interface: Biodiversity Heritage Library Releases New User Interface. Flora of North America Newsletter 27(1), January - June 2013, p9-10.
• Smithsonian Magazine runs column by Smithsonian Secretary G. Wayne Clough on digitization in libraries; includes discussion of BHL. Clough, G. Wayne. "From the Castle: Life Lines." Smithsonian Magazine. October 2008: 30.
• Philadelphia Inquirer article about the Academy of Natural Sciences joining BHL "Adding Old Images to Biodiversity Database" [erratum - it should of course say type specimens, not type-set!] July 21, 2009
• Publicity. "Project enables access to essential rare works in biodiversity" and "Project enables access to essential rare works in biodiversity (Part II)". Biblioteca Virtual em Saude - BVS. Newsletter. 9 April 2010

• Corn-plastic pens that look like corn!