Hi, everyone!
I have been using this library for several years and have found it quite helpful. Almost every day I check the library and usually find the informaton I need. It's like having the resources of a world-class malacological library at your fingertips!
Best regards!
Ron
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On Wed, 9/17/14, José H. Leal <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Subject: Re: [CONCH-L] Biodiversity Heritage Library
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Received: Wednesday, September 17, 2014, 11:26 PM
Dear Marien
and Conch-listers,
In addition to the great resources included in BHL you
just mentioned, I want to remind everyone that The
Nautilus (journal I've been editing since 1998) has
been included in the BHL system since their inception.
The Nautilus holdings in BHL (http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/6170#/summary)
include all volumes up to volume 122 (2008) and indexes.
More will be added soon. The Nautilus succeeded
The Conchologists Exchange (published between 1886
and 1888), and these few volumes are available in separate
(http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/40777#/summary).
In case you are interested in a brief history of this
traditional journal, check volume 120 (2006) issue number 1
for my article "Celebrating a long life: The
Nautilus turns 120!".
Kind regards from Sanibel,
On Wed, Sep 17, 2014
at 9:53 AM, Marien Faber <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
Dear
Conch-Lers,
I'd like to share with you a source that I
am using more and more, as it is growing more and more every
day. It is the Biodiversity Heritage Library (http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/).
Quote from its homepage: "The Biodiversity
Heritage Library is
a consortium of major natural history, botanical, and
research libraries that cooperate to digitize and make
accessible the literature of biodiversity held in their
collections as a part of a global "biodiversity
commons."""Especially
when I am in search of 18th, 19th and early 20th century
malacology papers published in journals I am rarely
disappointed. And if something is missing, you can send a
request. For instance, I dearly want to see a paper
published in the Abhandlungen
der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Geologischen Reichsanstalt
and
adding volumes in this series now is a work in
progress. Both texts and
plates/figures are usually well scanned (better than most
POD services). The quality is good enough for on screen
view, and for printing text for personal use, the resolution
of the images varies, and is often not suitable for
printing. If you want to enlarge an original image it is not
sufficient but that is about the only inconveniency (still
nothing beats owning your own original copy and a
good scanner). The other drawback that should be mentioned
is that many post-1923 volumes are not available because of
copyright laws. To end again on the positive side: browsing
through the early volumes of various Linn(a)ean and
zoological society periodicals brought to light many papers
with new species I'd never heard about, including quite
a number missed by Sherborn, and the Zoological
Record.
Marien
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