The Bat Literature Project (BatLit) facilitates discovery of scientific literature on bats (Chiroptera). This data publication contains versioned Zotero metadata and provenance of the batlit literature (Sherman et al. 2024) records, as tracked by Preston (a biodiversity data tracker, Elliott et al. 2020,2023) using the following workflow: ZOTERO_TOKEN=[SECRET]\ preston track\ --algo md5\ https://www.zotero.org/groups/5435545/bat_literature_project in which ZOTERO_TOKEN is an API token with sufficient access to Zotero's Bat Literature Project group. Note that, for this publication, the pdf content was not included for copyright reasons. However, secure links (i.e. md5 content hashes) to these PDFs are embedded in the archives. The result is a version corpus of batlit metadata, and their origins, packaged in tar.gz and zip archives. BatLit Literature Record Index Literature records can be extracted from this corpus in various ways. As an example, we show the output of an executed script in list-refs.sh against a recent version of the BatLit Corpus, both of which are provided in included batlit metadata archives (i.e., data.zip, data.tar.gz). For ease of processing, we’ve included a sample of 3 records in the table below, as well as files in tsv/csv formats include 100 records and all records. filenames description data.zip / .tar.gz batlit metadata archive refs-100.tsv / .csv author/date/title/journal of first 100 records refs.tsv / .csv author/date/title/journal of all records data-on-zenodo.zip / .tar.gz archive of associations of batlit metadata to Zenodo record ids refs-on-zenodo-100.tsv / .csv author/date/title/journal/zenodo doi of first 100 records refs-on-zenodo.tsv / .csv author/date/title/journal/zenodo doi of first 100 records list-refs.sh bash script used to generate refs.csv using command bash list-refs.sh > refs.csv First 3 records shown below as an example, and was generated by running: bash list-refs.sh\ | head -4\ | mlr --icsv --oxtab cat Note that id points to the records as seen on Zotero, attachment points to the attachment records as seen on Zotero, attachmentId is the signature/hash of the associated pdf, corpusId is the signature/hash of the applicable BatLit version (see version table below). authors Douglas date 1967 title Article: The Natural History of the Ghost Bat, Macroderma Gigas (Microchiroptera Megadermatidae), in Western Australia journal Western Australia. The Western Australian Naturalist type journalArticle volume 10 issue pages 125-138 doi id https://www.zotero.org/groups/bat_literature_project/items/M5MZ6NSB attachment https://api.zotero.org/groups/5435545/items/223GU789 attachmentId hash://md5/5e3f7fac483550be7983c6096e9e9800 corpusId hash://md5/ce1e7618f237ff56e74d51f496e811a3 authors Vora | Hannah | Lieberman | Vale | Plowright | Bernstein date 2022-05 title Want to prevent pandemics? Stop spillovers journal Nature type journalArticle volume 605 issue 7910 pages 419-422 doi 10.1038/d41586-022-01312-y id https://www.zotero.org/groups/bat_literature_project/items/A5RNP5YH attachment https://api.zotero.org/groups/5435545/items/223P42N5 attachmentId hash://md5/85c89cedcc23b072f98f3c22ad731029 corpusId hash://md5/ce1e7618f237ff56e74d51f496e811a3 authors Otto | Rall | Brose date 12/2007 title Allometric degree distributions facilitate food-web stability journal Nature type journalArticle volume 450 issue 7173 pages 1226-1229 doi 10.1038/nature06359 id https://www.zotero.org/groups/bat_literature_project/items/6RAB386Y attachment https://api.zotero.org/groups/5435545/items/225DJR2Q attachmentId hash://md5/6bdc818006c01cac3dd90eec4b337289 corpusId hash://md5/ce1e7618f237ff56e74d51f496e811a3 BatLit Literature Record Index on Zenodo Most BatLlit records are dissemated through Zenodo. The files ending with "on_zenodo" contains associations of batlit records with their deposits on Zenodo. See, for instance, the first record in refs-on-zenodo.csv as listed below in XTAB format along with the the bash script that produced it. Note that the alternativeDoi and alternativeDoiUrl point to a Zenodo deposit of Douglas 1967 at doi:10.5281/zenodo.13521017 (as seen on Zenodo on 2025-02-07). cat refs-on-zenodo.csv\ | head -2\ | mlr --icsv --oxtab cat authors Douglas date 1967 title Article: The Natural History of the Ghost Bat, Macroderma Gigas (Microchiroptera Megadermatidae), in Western Australia journal Western Australia. The Western Australian Naturalist type journalArticle volume 10 issue pages 125-138 doi id https://www.zotero.org/groups/bat_literature_project/items/M5MZ6NSB attachment https://api.zotero.org/groups/5435545/items/223GU789 attachmentId hash://md5/5e3f7fac483550be7983c6096e9e9800 corpusId hash://md5/ce1e7618f237ff56e74d51f496e811a3 alternativeDoi 10.5281/zenodo.13521017 alternativeDoiUrl https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13521017 zenodoResponseCorpusId hash://md5/510ea4383290c96d75e6190f83578d21 Version History name version date size # pages # references # attachments fingerprint Bat Literature Corpus v0.1 2024-04-26 7.9 GiB 2929 5055 hash://sha256/6ba…189 Bat Literature Corpus v0.2 2024-05-16/2024-05-17 11.6 GiB 3310 5471 hash://md5/be6…1d7 Bat Literature Corpus v0.3 2024-06-25/2024-06-26 13.6 GiB 5501 7229 hash://md5/350…77d Bat Literature Corpus v0.4 2024-08-01/2024-08-02 50.9 GiB 20146 29860 hash://md5/b39…72a Bat Literature Corpus v0.5 2024-08-16/2024-08-17 50.9 GiB 20145 29850 hash://md5/26f…b20 Bat Literature Corpus v0.6 2024-09-19/2024-09-20 44.7GiB 427105 19038 22590 hash://md5/db7…97b Bat Literature Corpus v0.7 2024-12-05/2024-12-06 45.2GiB 431870 19268 22930 hash://md5/ce1…1a3 Bat Literature Corpus v0.8 2025-10-02 45.5GiB 432925 19252 22947 hash://md5/330…ce0 For more information contact Aja Sherman (aja.sherman22@gmail.com), Cullen Geiselman (cullen@werinterests.com), or Jorrit Poelen (jhpoelen@jhpoelen.nl). Cite as: A.C. Sherman, J.H. Poelen, D. Agosti, N. Upham, N.B. Simmons, J.S. Zijlstra, and C.K. Geiselman. 2025. Bat Literature Project (BatLit, https://batlit.org) v0.8 hash://md5/330417efcaa2560c9b8ebcd6fae17ce0 .