making search simpler the nhm library and archives virtual library project
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Making search simplerThe NHM Library and Archives Virtual Library Project
Special Books19%
Museum Archives
6%
Modern Col-lections
1850-192019%
Modern Col-lections post 1920
59%
Born digital1%
Our Collections
From multiple access points…
... to a single search box.
Discovery Search
BHL
Archives
LibraryCatalogue
eJournals
NHM Repository
Bibliographic databases
NHM Repository:Making your publications more visible, inside and outside the Museum
Biodiversity Heritage Library
Image: Almond - Plate 8 from Pomona Franconica (1776-1801) by Johann Mayer of Wurzburg. Natural History Museum Library
• Over 41 million digitised pages• Nearly 3 million NHM pages
• Connection to taxonomic names via uBio and EOL species pages.• Open data services - BHL makes available:
– All book, or bibliographic, data– All taxonomic name data– Free to download, re-use, re-purpose, and re-mix by
anyone, anywhere• User engagement, interaction, feedback.• Portal, Darwin‘s Library, article repository, Developer tools,
API, OpenURL.
Ryan Schenk (Biodiversity Informatics at Woods Hole, Massachusetts) is using publication dates of works in BHL to build histograms of the number of publications-per-year.
Flexibility and Interoperability
Looking to the future
Go Live: 30th June 2014
FlexibilityFor more info…
James [email protected] Tel: +44 (0) 20 75635
Project wiki: http://nhmlib.wikispaces.com
Website: www.nhm.ac.uk/library
BHL: www.nhm.ac.uk/library