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The Value of Flexibility on Long-term Value of Grant Funded Projects

D-Lib Magazine, 2015
The Field Book Project is an initiative to increase accessibility to field book content that documents natural history — primary source documents that describe the events leading up to and including the collection of specimens or observations during ...
Lesley Parilla, J. Blase
semanticscholar   +1 more source

What are we DOIng about the Missing Links? Connecting Taxonomic Names to the Linked Network of Scholarly Research

, 2018
The classification of living things depends upon the literature. Access to this literature is essential to taxonomic research and to our understanding of biodiversity.
Nicole Kearney
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Improving Taxonomic Name Finding in the Biodiversity Heritage Library

, 2020
As the world’s largest open access digital library for biodiversity literature and archives, the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) provides access to over a quarter-million volumes of natural history literature to researchers around the world.
J. Richard
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Building the Biodiversity Heritage Library's Technical Strategy

, 2020
In 2016 the United Nations published the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It quickly became clear that information is a catalyst for almost every goal, and enhancing information access is necessary to achieve and ultimately improve global ...
Elisa A. Herrmann
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Adding Taxonomic Dimensions to the Scientific Names Index in the Biodiversity Heritage Library via Integration with the Catalogue of Life

, 2020
The most significant specialized and open resource for biodiversity literature is the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL). BHL contains more than 200,000 volumes that cover hundreds of years of biological publications.
D. Mozzherin, Geoffrey D. Ower
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Biodiversity Heritage Library Response to the Global COVID-19 Pandemic

, 2020
The global onset of the COVID-19 pandemic began in January 2020. In February, many academic and research institutions began to move to a telework environment.
Martin R. Kalfatovic, Constance A. Rinaldo, Jane E. Smith, D. Iggulden, Colleen Funkhouser   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Ontogenetic changes and sexual dimorphism in the cranium and mandible of the Atlantic walrus (Odobenus rosmarus rosmarus L.)

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Walruses have been an important subsistence and cultural resource for humans and have been exploited for millennia across their distribution. This exploitation has contributed to severe declines in several populations and local extirpations.
Katrien Dierickx, Oliver Kersten, Youri van den Hurk, Brenna A. Frasier, Richard Sabin, Bastiaan Star, James H. Barrett   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Digitization connects scattered specimens and enables new historical research: Plants from the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition (1881–1884)

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Widespread museum digitization initiatives have made the world's herbaria more accessible than ever, launching a renaissance of specimen use. We highlight the value of digitization to bolster both scientific and historical research using the specimens from the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition (1881–1884) to the Canadian arctic, remembered for its tragedy ...
J. Mason Heberling, Jackson P. Wright
wiley   +1 more source

Prospective of indigenous African wild food plants in alleviation of the severe iron deficiency anaemia in Sub‐Saharan Africa

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Iron deficiency anaemia remains a major public health challenge in Sub‐Saharan Africa, where population growth, displacement and limited resources heighten nutritional insecurity. We compiled a list of indigenous African underutilized wild food plants and examined their potential for addressing micronutrient deficiencies.
Eltayb Abdellatef, Yohannes Gedamu Gebre, Petra Bauer   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Connecting tradition and technology: The digitization of the ethnobotanical collection at the Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
The digitization of RBetno (JBRJ) represents a step forward for biodiversity conservation in Brazil. Aligned with the Kunming‐Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (Target 2, 2020–2030), this project documents the use of plants, including traditional knowledge and vernacular names, with a focus on the Atlantic Forest and Amazon.
Viviane S. Fonseca‐Kruel, Carlos E. A. Coimbra Jr., Luis Alexandre Estevão da Silva, Felipe Alves Oliveira, Maria Paula Vasconcelos Mesquita, Mariana Taniguchi, Rafaela Campostrini Forzza   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source