Digitisation project puts Darwin’s personal library online | Reviews | IWR - Information world review

"Charles Darwin’s personal scientific library, including notes and comments scribbled by him on the pages and margins of his collection, has been made available online for the first time. Darwin’s library, the majority of which is held at Cambridge University Library, has been digitised in a collaborative effort involving Cambridge, the Darwin Manuscripts Project at the American Museum of Natural History, the Natural History Museum, and the Biodiversity Heritage Library. According to the university, in total, Darwin’s library amounted to 1480 books, of which 730 contain abundant research notes in their margins. The first phase of the project has just been completed, with 330 of the most heavily annotated books launched online for all to read at Biodiversity Heritage Library...."