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- Eligibility — Any research output (data, software, posters, presentation, deliverables, ...) containing biodiversity related content, e.g. taxonomy, ecology, genetics
- Curation — Submissions are NOT curated. Submissions are NOT peer- reviewed.
- Compliance — Biodiversity Literature Repository makes it easy to comply with the related FAIR data principles.
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- Plazi & CERN — the Biodiversity Literature Repository Community is managed by Plazi in collaboration with CERN.
- Funded by — the work is funded by the European Commission and the Arcadia Fund..