InvertEBaseInvertEBase originated in 2014 as part of a U. S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Thematic Collection Network (TCN) grant in the Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections (ADBC) Program. It was initially created as a collaborative effort to digitize specimen records from ten arthropod and mollusk collections housed at six major U.S. museums in six states. They include the Field Museum of Natural History (Chicago, Illinois), Cleveland Museum of Natural History (Ohio), Auburn University Museum of Natural History (Alabama), University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, Delaware Museum of Natural History, and the Frost Entomological Museum at Pennsylvania State University.