Biodiversity Literature Repository

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Liberated Data

Research data from scientific publications

Search using occurrences, taxonomic names and datasets
Data from 3 billion occurrences and 112,000 datasets
Access to occurrences, species and datasets

Full-text search in publications and taxonomic treatments
Query for taxonomic names, vernacular names, questions or other services

Search using datasets
Search in the context of the Catalogue of Life and GBIF
Supports data comparison, integration, and reuse for biodiversity research

Search through metadata, annotations and respective attributes
Over 1 million treatments and 1.8 million materials citations, from more than 80 thousand publications

68.55%

Openness

99.67%

Openness

99.98%

Openness

99.97%

Openness

Animalia

1,135,598

Plantae

104,771

Fungi

17,248

Protista

32

Archaea

17

Bacteria

2,233

Holotype

132,609

Tyrannosaurus rex

73

Linnaeus

21,239

European Journal of Taxonomy

56,096

New Species

300,533

Linnaeus + Holotype

152

February 2017 (v1)

Journal article

Open

New approaches to plant conservation challenges. Conservation for people and nature, benefiting both. Reflecting on FOG's experience, learning and vision

Robertson, Geoff

(Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.

Uploaded on July 17, 2025

Part of Bridging Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) to Biodiversity Literature Repository (BLR)

Published in Australasian Plant Conservation: journal of the Australian Network for Plant Conservation, 25(3), 17-19, 2017.

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1944 (v1)

Journal article

Open

New Aphodius from Texas Gopher Burrows

Cartwright, Oscar Ling

(Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.

Uploaded on July 17, 2025

Part of Bridging Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) to Biodiversity Literature Repository (BLR)

Published in Entomological news, 55, 146-150, 1944.

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2005 (v1)

Journal article

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New aphidoidea (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha) in burmese amber

Poinar, George O., Jr. Brown, Alex E.

(Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.

Uploaded on July 17, 2025

Part of Bridging Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) to Biodiversity Literature Repository (BLR)

Published in Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 107, 835-845, 2005.

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Eligibility — Any research output (data, software, posters, presentation, deliverables, ...) containing biodiversity related content, e.g. taxonomy, ecology, genetics
Curation — Submissions are NOT curated. Submissions are NOT peer- reviewed.
Compliance — Biodiversity Literature Repository makes it easy to comply with the related FAIR data principles.
Zenodo — Biodiversity Literature Repository is a community inside Zenodo which is managed and hosted by CERN.

Manage your project's research outputs — A BLR sub-community provides you with a common space to manage research outputs from your project and from all your partners.
Members — Allows you to manage members from across all the project's partners and determine who can submit, who can review and who can manage.

Plazi supports and promotes the development of persistent and openly accessible digital taxonomic literature. To this end Plazi:

Plazi & CERN — the Biodiversity Literature Repository Community is managed by Plazi in collaboration with CERN.
Funded by — the work is funded by the European Commission and the Arcadia Fund..