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. 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, 6200+ volumes and 619,000+ pages contributed to BHL by Australia's museums, herbaria, universities, state libraries, royal societies, field naturalist clubs and government organisations, 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.