Global library cooperative OCLC, US, has announced that the Biodiversity Heritage Library has added more than 14,000 records of digitised materials, brought together from 12 institutions, to WorldCat. The Biodiversity Heritage Library claims to be one of the world's largest repositories of full-text digitised legacy biodiversity literature.
The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is a consortium of major natural history museum libraries, botanical libraries, and research institutions organised to digitise, serve and preserve the legacy literature of biodiversity. BHL is the scanning and digitisation component of the Encyclopedia of Life, a global effort to assemble information on all living species known to science into one ever-expanding, trusted, Web-based resource.
The Biodiversity Heritage Library will continue to send records to OCLC representing new titles scanned and added to their collection. The records link directly to the BHL Web site to access the full text.
OCLC continues to add records to WorldCat describing digitised and e-book collections of interest to the membership through partnerships with libraries, aggregators, publishers and mass digitisation projects globally. There are currently more than 8 million records describing e-books and digitised books in WorldCat.
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