Who's behind the news?
Who's behind the news?
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Use of DataThe Repositorio Institucional de Documentación Científica del Instituto Alexander von Humboldt is the open-access institutional repository of the Alexander von Humboldt Biological Resources Research Institute (Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt, IAvH), a Colombian nonprofit research institute linked to the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development. The repository's mission is to collect, store, preserve, and disseminate the scientific output generated by the institute as a result of its biodiversity research, returning institutional knowledge about Colombian biodiversity to the country and the wider scientific community.
The IAvH was founded in 1993 as a civil nonprofit corporation under the framework established by Colombia's Law 99 of 1993, which ratified the Convention on Biological Diversity. The institute serves as coordinator of the National Biodiversity Information System (SiB Colombia), a country-wide alliance of over one hundred institutions dedicated to facilitating free and open access to biodiversity data. The institutional repository was consolidated around 2013 to organize, standardize, and disseminate the growing volume of biological and geographical data produced by the institute's research programs. The repository platform is built on DSpace and complies with international metadata and data-quality standards.
The repository houses a wide range of scientific publications, technical reports, datasets, and multimedia materials generated by IAvH researchers. Holdings include peer-reviewed articles, theses, institutional reports, biodiversity informatics datasets (biological records, species checklists, camera-trapping images, soundscapes, phylogenies), and geographic data such as satellite imagery, geographic layers, and maps. The collections cover key research themes including threatened and invasive species, strategic ecosystems such as tropical dry forests, wetlands, and páramos, and national biodiversity policy.
The repository is freely accessible online at repository.humboldt.org.co. Materials are searchable by author, subject, date, and type. Many documents are available for free download under open-access licenses, consistent with the institute's commitment to promoting free and open access to biodiversity data in line with the Convention on Biological Diversity.
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