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What is GBIF?

Scarlet pimpernel (Lysimachia arvensis) observed in Al Haffah, Syria by s-dawod. Photo via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Community review opens for updated guide to publishing occurrence data from impact assessments

Blog

(Almost) everything you want to know about the GBIF Species API

News

GBIF releases new guide for publication of data on sensitive species

News

Task group to enhance GBIF-enabled research on species linked to human diseases

Data use

The impact of climate change on islands

Project

New video: an invitation to the private sector

Taxonomy

Newly described species: Feaella obscura

Feaella (Tetrafeaella) obscura sp. nov. – a new pseudoscorpion species from the Maldives (Arachnida, Pseudoscorpiones), and an updated identification key to the subgenus Feaella (Tetrafeaella)

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How to choose the right dataset class

If you are a (first-time) GBIF publisher and you are trying to decide which type of dataset would best fit your data, this blog post is for you.

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Peer-reviewed papers using data