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February 2017 (v1)Journal articleOpen
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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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Published in Entomological news, 55, 146-150, 1944.
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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.
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- 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.
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- 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..