posted on 2023-02-06, 17:20authored byScience Gossip
‘Science Gossip’ is born from a collaboration between an Arts and Humanities Research Council project in the UK, called ‘Constructing Scientific Communities: Citizen Science in the 19th and 21st Centuries’ (ConSciCom) and the Missouri Botanical Garden who are providing content from the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL).
Funding
Constructing Scientific Communities: Citizen Science in the 19th and 21st Centuries
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