Libraries at University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Date of this Version
2013
Document Type
Article
Citation
Ithaka S+R Case Study
A summary report, “Searching for Sustainability: Strategies from Eight Digitized Special Collections,” is available at http://www.sr.ithaka. org/research-publications/searching-sustainability
Abstract
The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), created in 2006, is the result of a collaboration of ten natural history museum and botanical garden libraries seeking to digitize core taxonomic literature and to make it free and openly available throughout the world. Today, the BHL includes fifteen member institutions whose efforts have shaped a collection of over 60,000 titles. It is supported through a combination of membership dues, in-kind support from member institutions, contributions from the user community, and direct support from the Smithsonian Institution Libraries, and it reaches tens of thousands of users each year. While managing the complex partnership has not been easy, BHL offers an instructive model for multi-institutional, international collaboration.
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Biodiversity Commons, Databases and Information Systems Commons, Intellectual Property Law Commons, Scholarly Communication Commons, Scholarly Publishing Commons, Science and Mathematics Education Commons, Science and Technology Studies Commons
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Open access material
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US)