The Bibliography of Life

Biodiversity Literature Repository (BLR) is a Zenodo-community to share publications related to bio-systematics. It has been initiated by Plazi, Pensoft and Zenodo at CERN.Its goal is to provide open access to publications cited in publications or in combination with scientific names and to provide in collaboration with Zenodo a digital object identifier (DOI) to the publications to enable citation of the publications, including direct access to its digital representation. Its focus is on thematic corpora, such as particular taxonomic groups, eg. ants, projects or research journals. Illustrations or subarticle elements can be uploaded. Plazi provides a service to convert back issues into semantically enhanced documents and to disseminate taxonomic treatments through TreatmentBank. BLR offers journals to obtain DOIs for their new issues. Currently, the following journals joined the BLR community and use Zenodo DataCite DOIs:

• Halteres
• Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation
• Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft
• Odonatologica
• Revue Suisse de Zoologie
• Revue de Paléobiologie

RefBank is a website where you can search for bibliographic references. No registration is required (everyone can upload and edit). Results can be converted in different styles and formats. It serves as the “dirty bucket” of references and source for “clean buckets” such as the references in the Biodiversity Literature Repository

provides an easy search function, based on a simple interface, which also collates and sorts the results from the search engines for presentation to the user to read and with the option to refine the results presented or submit a new search.