New Mexico is enormously rich in biodiversity and fortunate in that a history of that biodiversity is still available to scientists and the public in the form of collections housed in the state's natural history museums. To protect those collections and to make the information stored in them available to the scientific community and the general public, NMBCC has integrated museum data at the University of New Mexico, New Mexico State University, Western New Mexico University, and Eastern New Mexico University into a searchable geospatial format accessible via the Internet.

Prior to 2008, NMBCC was known as the Biodiversity Division of the Institute of Natural Resource Analysis and Management (INRAM).

• June 15, 2008. NMBCC queries have always been fast, but upgrades to our server software and memory allocation have increased query speed even more.
• Feb 16, 2008. The bug that cropped up last week in the registration function has been fixed.
• Better queries. Registered users can now search by collector, locality, year collected, and other specimen-level criteria.
• Better table results. Query results can be sorted in ascending or decending order. For registered users, there is a new detailed specimens table view option.
• Better detailed records. Specimen record reports now include more information and all reports include dynamic links to google images and to reports from Natureserve Explorer, USDA Plants Database, International Plant Names Index, and the Animal Diversity Web. You can now scroll among detailed record reports and grouped reports include a table of corresponding specimens.
• Better downloads. Now registered users can download detailed specimen records with remarks and other morphological fields.
• My Account support. Change your password, personal information, and view/change your access levels for individual collections.
• Collection Manager support. Regstered users who are assigned collection manager status can upload and refresh their data online, review and approve users for collaborator access, and change information about their collection that appears throughout the site.