California Academy of Sciences

The California Academy of Sciences will partner with the Academy of Natural Sciences, Harvard University’s Herbaria and Botany Libraries and its Museum of Comparative Zoology, the Missouri Botanical Garden, the New York Botanical Garden, and the Smithsonian Institution’s U.S. National Herbarium to develop a system for integrating biological researchers’ field and specimen notes, with museum specimens and related electronically published literature. The enhanced and integrated access to biological data will serve a wide variety of users, and will connect to other ongoing projects such as the Biodiversity Heritage Library, a consortium of 12 major natural history museum libraries, botanical libraries, and research institutions that have joined forces to deliver important, page-level digital content representing the core of published literature on natural history.