BHL Australia
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 560+ titles, 7300+ volumes and 758,000+ 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:
Museums
- Museums Victoria (BHL Australia lead)
- Australian Museum
- Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
- Queensland Museum
- Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery
- South Australian Museum
- Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
- Western Australian Museum
Herbaria
- Australian National Herbarium
- Queensland Herbarium
- National Herbarium of New South Wales
- National Herbarium of Victoria
- Northern Territory Herbarium
- State Herbarium of South Australia
- Tasmanian Herbarium
- Western Australian Herbarium
To peruse all the botanical taxonomic journals on BHL published
by Australia's herbaria, view our Australian Botanical Collection.
State Libraries
Universities
Government Institutes & Agencies
- Australian Biological Resources Study
- Australian Institute of Marine Science
- Australian National Insect Collection (CSIRO)
- Geological Survey Victoria
- Geoscience Australia (Commonwealth of Australia)
- Government of Victoria, Australia
- Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority
- Taxonomy Australia
Royal Societies
- Royal Society of New South Wales
- Royal Society of Queensland
- Royal Society of South Australia
- Royal Society of Tasmania
- Royal Society of Victoria
- Royal Society of Western Australia
Naturalists' Clubs
- Australian Naturalists' Society
- Field Naturalists Club of Victoria
- Northern Territory Field Naturalists' Club
- North Queensland Naturalists Club
- Tasmanian Field Naturalists Club
- Western Australian Naturalists’ Club
Field Naturalist Clubs of Victoria
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.
- Bendigo Field Naturalists Club
- Castlemaine Field Naturalists Club
- Geelong Field Naturalists Club
- Latrobe Valley Field Naturalist Club
- Peninsula Field Naturalists' Club
- Field Naturalists' Club of Ballarat
- Ringwood Field Naturalists Club
Other Clubs, Societies & Networks
- Australasian Affiliation of Herpetological Societies
- Australian Coral Reef Society
- Australasian Native Orchid Society
- Australasian Systematic Botany Society
- Australian Entomological Society
- Australian Freshwater Sciences Society
- Australian Garden History Society
- Australian Network for Plant Conservation
- Entomological Society of Queensland
- Entomological Society of Victoria
- Fossil Collectors' Association of Australasia
- Friends of the Innamincka Reserves
- Linnean Society of New South Wales
- Malacological Society of Australasia
- Moths and Butterflies Australasia
- Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
- Tasmanian Polar Network
