Martin R. Kalfatovic is the Program Director of the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), which is a global consortium that makes biodiversity literature openly available online. Over the past 10 years, BHL has digitized over 51 million pages from over 114,000 titles. It provides free access to biodiversity literature from the 15th-21st centuries and receives on average over 100,000 users per month from around the world. BHL aims to improve research methodology by making this historical literature openly accessible and searchable online.