The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is a produced by a consortium of 12 major natural history museum libraries, botanical libraries, and research institutions organized to digitize, serve, and preserve the legacy literature of biodiversity.
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Allows searching in multiple languages by both common and scientific name. It is produced by an international consortium of institutions led by the WorldFish Center. It includes environment, distribution, morphology, family, order, and class for economically important species, as well as photographs and maps. It is updated continually.
Multilingual, multidisciplinary information in the humanities (63%), social sciences (33%), and economics (4%).
General Science Full Text provides full text from more than 100 periodicals dating as far back as 1995, in addition to indexing and abstracts for nearly 300 periodicals dating back to 1984.
Special Papers includes monographs, symposium-based volumes, and longer, multi-author volumes with dedicated volume editors.
This includes about fifty titles in the broad scope of earth sciences, including environmental geology, mineralogy, paleontology, seismology, etc., from a number of geologic societies around the world.