The document discusses the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), an organization that aims to digitize literature related to biodiversity and make it openly accessible online. It provides details on BHL's structure, partners, efforts to digitize over 1.4 million pages of literature through mass scanning facilities, and development of tools to extract taxonomic and other scientific information from the literature. BHL's goal is to narrow the digital divide by providing access to biodiversity literature from over 250 years that is currently difficult to access.