The Biodiversity Literature Repository (BLR) is a
biodiversity dedicated community created in November 11, 2013, in
Zenodo, the open science repository at
CERN
The European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN (; ; ), is an intergovernmental organization that operates the largest particle physics laboratory in the world. Established in 1954, it is based in a northwestern suburb of Gene ...
and part of the European project
OpenAIRE. 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 and 293,457 figures from 48,993 articles which are made findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable
FAIR data
FAIR data are data which meet principles of findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability (FAIR). The acronym and principles were defined in a March 2016 paper in the journal ''Scientific Data'' by a consortium of scientists and ...
. Most of the data is uploaded on a continuous basis by
Plazi using its TreatmentBank service based on their Plazi workflow, 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.
[
]
Funding sources
The primary funding for the Biodiversity Literature Repository comes via the
Arcadia Fund and
in kind contribution by Plazi and Pensoft.
References
World Digital Library
Biodiversity
{{database-stub