Biodiversity Heritage Library

Ten major natural history museum libraries, botanical libraries, and research institutions have joined to form the Biodiversity Heritage Library Project. The group is developing a strategy and operational plan to digitize the published literature of biodiversity held in their respective collections. This literature will be available through a global “biodiversity commons.” Most of the literature is in the developed world, in the Northern Hemisphere, but most of the biodiversity is in the developing world and the Southern Hemisphere. One ofthe most desirable outcomes of the project is to repatriate literature to the originating countries of
publication by making it accessible to anyone with an Internet connection.
Source: WORLD LIBRARY AND INFORMATION CONGRESS INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF LIBRARIES AND ASSOCIATIONS