BHL Australia is a national project working to digitise Australia's biodiversity literature and make it openly accessible online on the Biodiversity Heritage Library website. We began operation in 2010 with just one organisation, Museums Victoria, but we have now grown to a national consortium of over 60 contributing organisations and publishers across the country (see list below). Our digitisation operation is located at the Melbourne Museum in the beautiful World Heritage Listed Carlton Gardens. BHL Australia is funded by the Atlas of Living Australia to make Australia's biodiversity knowledge openly accessible to everyone.
To peruse the 500+ titles, 6700+ volumes and 660,000+ pages contributed to BHL by Australia's museums, herbaria, universities, state libraries, royal societies, government organisations, field naturalist clubs and other natural history clubs and societies, click here.
The organisations contributing to BHL Australia include:
To peruse all the botanical taxonomic journals on BHL published by Australia's herbaria, view our Australian Botanical Collection.
The publications of the following Field Naturalist Clubs are being made accessible on BHL thanks to funding from the Public Record Office of Victoria's 2023 Local History Grants Program. To find out more, see our Field Naturalist Clubs of Victoria Collection.