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The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is a consortium of major natural history museum libraries, botanical libraries, and research institutions that cooperate to digitize and make accessible the legacy biodiversity literature. Through an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)-funded grant called Expanding Access to Biodiversity Literature (EABL), BHL has adapted its digitization and metadata workflows to accommodate small organizations outside the consortium that would like to contribute unique content to BHL but lack the resources to do so. This requires innovative approaches to ingesting born digital and already-digitized material; training partners on BHL's metadata creation tool, Macaw; expanded copyright metadata and display fields in the user interface; and definition of articles and other bibliographic segments.

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  • Patrick Randall May 2, 2017 | Digital Initiatives Symposium "I think Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is one of the most important and useful resources online

  • Digital Initiatives Symposium. 3. https://digital.sandiego.edu/symposium/2017/2017/3 This 45-minute concurrent session is brought to you for free and open access by Digital USD. It has been accepted for inclusion in Digital Initiatives Symposium by an authorized administrator of Digital USD

  • Presenter 1 Title Community Manager Session Type 45-minute concurrent session Abstract Expanding Access to Biodiversity Literature (EABL) is an IMLS-funded grant designed to enhance the collection of the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), a digital library providing open access to over 50 million pages of legacy biodiversity literature

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Patrick Randall May 2, 2017 | Digital Initiatives Symposium "I think BHL is one of the most important and useful resources online . Follow this and additional works at: https://digital.sandiego.edu/symposium Part of the Biodiversity Commons, Botany Commons, Higher Education Commons, and the Zoology Commons Randall, Patrick, "Expanding Access to Biodiversity Literature" (2017).

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