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]
| Producer | Plazi, Pensoft and Zenodo (Switzerland) |
|---|---|
| History | 2013 to present |
| Languages | English |
| Access | |
| 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 |
| Links | |
| Website | zenodo |
| Title list(s) | zenodo |
Funding sources
editThe primary funding for the Biodiversity Literature Repository comes via the Arcadia Fund and in kind contribution by Plazi and Pensoft.
References
edit- ^ "Biodiversity Literature Repository". zenodo.org/communities/biosyslit/. Retrieved 2021-04-25.
- ^ "Zenodo's Biodiversity Literature Repository is a treasure-trove of FAIR data". www.openaire.eu/. Retrieved 2021-04-25.
- ^ "Taxonomic treatments in BLR". zenodo.org/communities/biosyslit/. Retrieved 2021-04-25.
- ^ "Figures in BLR". zenodo.org/communities/biosyslit/. Retrieved 2021-04-25.
- ^ "Articles in BLR". zenodo.org/communities/biosyslit/. Retrieved 2021-04-25.
- ^ "TreatmentBank". plazi.org. Archived from the original on 2021-05-29. Retrieved 2021-04-25.
- ^ Agosti, Donat; Guidoti, Marcus; Sautter, Guido (2020). "Liberating the Richness of Facts implicit in taxonomic Publication: The Plazi Workflow". 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". BMC Research Notes. 2 (53). doi:10.1186/1756-0500-2-53. PMC 2673227.
- ^ "Plazi.org taxonomic treatments database". gbif.org. Retrieved 2021-04-25.
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