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The EOL Executive Committee Fall Meeting

The BA hosted the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) Executive Committee Fall Meeting on 10 and 11 October 2011, bringing together eminent figures from partner institutions, regional, national and thematic EOLs and other major financial or in-kind sponsors. Following the EOLv2 launch last month, the ...

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A New Version of the Encyclopedia of Life

Providing nearly 700,000 species, 35 million pages of scanned literature and over 600,000 photos of living creatures, the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) has recently launched a new version of its free online system in response to requests from the general public, citizen scientists, educators and ...

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Encyclopedia of Life Meeting at Smithsonian

As a member of the Executive Committee of the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL), Dr. Ismail Serageldin, Director of the Library of Alexandria, attends the committee meeting held at the Smithsonian Institution this week. The Committee members, who are senior figures from the cornerstone institutions of the ...

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EOL Receives One Million Dollar Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF)

The Smithsonian Institution has announced that the National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded the International Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) Project, a project in which the BA is an integral partner, a one million dollar grant. The grant aims to establish a cooperation between EOL, IBM, and ...

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