Developments in open science, remote sensing, digitization, genomics, and artificial intelligence offer unprecedented opportunities to understand biodiversity and respond to its global decline. Yet vast volumes of biodiversity-relevant data remain locked within scientific publications and grey literature. Emerging from the Disentis Roadmap; a community vision endorsed by over 100 contributors, we propose the Biodiversity Libroscope: a community-driven framework to systematically unlock, FAIR-enable, and disseminate data from published sources. We outline key barriers, assess recent progress, and present use cases demonstrating feasibility. We argue that coordinated investment in literature-based data liberation will significantly expand research capacity, policy insight, and long-term reuse of biodiversity knowledge.