| Biodiversity Literature Repository | |
| Producer: | Plazi, Pensoft and Zenodo |
| Country: | Switzerland |
| History: | 2013 to present |
| Languages: | English |
| Cost: | Free |
| Disciplines: | biodiversity |
| Depth: | Index and FAIR data |
| Formats: | Books / Journal, figures, taxonomic treatments |
| Temporal: | 1758 - recent |
| Geospatial: | Worldwide |
| Number: | 293,457 |
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]
The primary funding for the Biodiversity Literature Repository comes via the Arcadia Fund and in kind contribution by Plazi and Pensoft.