The Biodiversity Collections Network will convene a workshop at The Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois in September 2015. This meeting will bring together institutional leaders, […]
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BCoN Cosponsors Plenary Session on Collections for the 21st Century
NIBA has joined iDigBio and Natural Science Collections Alliance to cosponsor a Plenary Session on 21st Century Collections during the 2015 Society for the Preservation of Natural History […]
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Four New Species Discovered in Insect Collections
Four previously unknown cricket species were discovered by a researcher working with insect collections in Spain and Germany. Bruno Massa of the University of Palermo made the discoveries. […]
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$1M Available for Digital Innovation that Moves Us Beyond the Bug Box
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) have launched the Beyond the Box National Digitization Innovation Competition. The initiative will award […]
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Scientists Announce National Effort to Foster Digitization of Biodiversity Collections
Scientists have launched a new national initiative to build a research and end-user community dedicated to developing a Network Integrated Biocollections Alliance (NIBA). The project is an outgrowth […]