Biology:Biodiversity Literature Repository
| Producer | Plazi, Pensoft and Zenodo (Switzerland) |
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| History | 2013 to present |
| Languages | English |
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| Cost | Free |
| Coverage | |
| Disciplines | biodiversity |
| Record depth | Index and FAIR data |
| Format coverage | Books / Journal, figures, taxonomic treatments |
| Temporal coverage | 1758 - recent |
| Geospatial coverage | Worldwide |
| No. of records | 293,457 |
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The Biodiversity Literature Repository (BLR) is a biodiversity dedicated community created in November 11, 2013,[1] in Zenodo, the open science repository at CERN and part of the European project OpenAIRE.[2] The goal of BLR is to provide a long-term, stable, open repository that allows deposition of bio-taxonomic articles enhanced with custom metadata and links to data extracted from therein and deposited in BLR. As of April 25, 2021, this includes 94,443 taxonomic treatments[3] and 293,457 figures[4] from 48,993 articles[5] which are made findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable FAIR data. Most of the data is uploaded on a continuous basis by Plazi using its TreatmentBank[6] service based on their Plazi workflow,[7][8] and Pensoft Publishers using BLR as repository for data published in their journals. The largest single re-user of data is the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), using data from within 33,623 processed articles.[9]
Funding sources
The primary funding for the Biodiversity Literature Repository comes via the Arcadia Fund and in kind contribution by Plazi and Pensoft.
References
- ↑ "Biodiversity Literature Repository". https://zenodo.org/communities/biosyslit/?page=1&size=20.
- ↑ "Zenodo’s Biodiversity Literature Repository is a treasure-trove of FAIR data". https://www.openaire.eu/the-biodiversity-literature-repository-passes-the-200-000-items-milestone.
- ↑ "Taxonomic treatments in BLR". https://zenodo.org/communities/biosyslit/search?page=1&size=20&subtype=taxonomictreatment.
- ↑ "Figures in BLR". https://zenodo.org/communities/biosyslit/search?page=1&size=20&type=image.
- ↑ "Articles in BLR". https://zenodo.org/communities/biosyslit/search?page=1&size=20&subtype=article.
- ↑ "TreatmentBank". http://plazi.org/resources/treatmentbank/.
- ↑ Agosti, Donat; Guidoti, Marcus; Sautter, Guido (2020). "Liberating the Richness of Facts implicit in taxonomic Publication: The Plazi Workflow" (in en). Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 4 (e59179). doi:10.3897/biss.4.59179.
- ↑ Agosti, Donat; Egloff, Willi (2008). "Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach" (in en). BMC Research Notes 2 (53). doi:10.1186/1756-0500-2-53.
- ↑ "Plazi.org taxonomic treatments database". https://www.gbif.org/publisher/7ce8aef0-9e92-11dc-8738-b8a03c50a862.
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