Science at the British Library

Lee-Ann Coleman

Head of Science, Technology and Medicine

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Vision for Science, Technology & Medicine at The British Library

The British Library will be recognised as a world-leading information hub for scientific, technical and medical information, enabling researchers to

advance knowledge to enrich lives.

To enhance the competitiveness of UK science and innovation, we will provide a portfolio of free and priced services, based on a thorough

understanding of the needs of STM researchers and the research lifecycle.

Through engagement with the research community, the public and young people we will provide inspiration, information and education about science

and the scientific process.

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Science, Technology and Medicine strategy

Establishing partnerships

Information gathering

A dedicated STM team

Developing new services Initiating new projects

Managing our collections

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Science, Technology and Medicine Approach

STM ContentSTM PurchasedLD CollectionReading roomsDocument

supply

RIC WWSUKPMC

Engage

STM Purchased

STM Content

Products and services

Inform Inspire

Enable

Bioscience Environmental science

STM Researchers

STM Stakeholders

Engage

Inspire

Enable

Inform

Optimize

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Making the connection…

Connecting researchers with relevant information & data,wherever it is and wherever they are

Engage and understand researchers and their research Identify ways in which we can add value – now & future Enhance ease of discovery and access of current resources Developing new, richer ways to explore and use digital information Offering targeted services relevant to specific research domains

Provide:

Choice; Quality Assurance; Sustainable Discovery; Innovation

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Multidisciplinary resources

Breadth and Depth Print journals and books

20k STM journal titles and 100% of those indexed in ISI

Electronic material: Databases, journals, reports, newspapers

Grey literature: Conference proceedings, Reports, Theses (ethos.bl.uk), Official publications

Patents Maps Sound recordings (inc. oral histories) Web sites (http://www.webarchive.org.uk/ukwa/)

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Our role in science and medicine – Document Supply

Document supply to libraries and other research institutions is mainly STM

Scan-on-demand and secure electronic delivery

Table of Contents database - Inside and BL Direct

Table of Contents database – ZETOC 20,000 journals, tailored for the UK higher education

community, hosted by Mimas

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Our role in science and medicine – biomedical services

Health Care Information Service Medline/PubMed – indexing the UK input AMED – a database of research articles on

complementary medicine and allied health

The Science reading rooms at St Pancras

British Library Research Service

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Science, Technology and Medicine:Data activities

Content Expand STM content to include online data in the focus areas of bio- and

environmental science: Selection criteria and workflows for a potential dataset discovery service Evidence-based approach: UKPMC additional content - image data

Resource Discovery Evidence-based approach: pilot discovery service to test user needs for data

discovery Consulting internally on the solutions for cataloguing and surfacing

external datasets Metadata required and available from selected data providers

Engagement Data centres, e.g. Biological Records Centre (NERC) Other data creators/owners, e.g. Leeds Institute of Molecular Medicine,

Environmental Research Funders’ Forum Data ‘users’ and ‘re-users’, e.g. the UKPMC research image data survey and

users of a pilot data discovery service

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WorldWideScience.org

Global science gateway based on US Department of Energy’s Science.Gov service

Multilateral partnership to enable federated searching of national and international scientific databases and portals.

Launched in 2008 Large number of countries already

providing access to publicly funded research outputs - latest addition is China

Chaired by British Library

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Supporting New Developments:The Research Information Centre

Developed by Microsoft External Research & The British Library

A Virtual Research Environment for collaborative research projects accessible via a web browser

Aims to address ‘pain points’ or inefficiencies of research project management

Initial focus in Biomedical Research

Development partners currently include:

National Institute for Health Research

National Cancer Research Institute Informatics Initiative

MyExperiment ConsortiumAn adaptable, pluggable, open-access framework for discovery, creation and sharing of information, data, tools and other resources

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UKPMC – new service in beta

UKPMC development projects commenced July 2008, first release January 2010

Addresses 4 key aims through 4 work packages –

Enhance the user experience (Text mining to enhance search) Enable access to a wider range of information resources

(additional content e.g. Clinical guidelines, grey literature, DOH publications, patents)

Provide access to a fuller range of biomedical and health journal literature (EBI’s CiteXplore service)

Deliver metrics and the ability to analyse impact in new ways (Grant Reporting System for Funders and Grantees)

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Integrated with

community interfaces

Enhanced content

BLcatalogue

Accessed via bibliographic

data

Publisher sites

ETOC

Discovery interfaces (e.g. Intute)

Advanced text/data mining &

visualisation

Social publishing forums & new

metrics for authors/funders

e-science workbenches

Data supporting interdisciplinary

research

Vision for UKPMC

UKPMC

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For further information

BL Website: www.bl.uk/science

Email: science@bl.uk

WorldWideScience: www.worldwidescience.org

UK PubMedCentral: www.ukpmc.ac.uk

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Engaging with the STM Community: Funding for biomedical research in the UK

Understanding the drivers for biomedical research in the UK

•This area of research is well funded with the MRC and DH combined budgets over £1b/pa and the contribution from the charity sector around £700m/pa

•Continued emphasis on deriving public benefit from research:UKCRC established – to make UK world leader in clinical researchBest Research for Best Health – DH strategy to increase support for researchCooksey Review of Health Research: formation of OSCHR, in 2007

• Good picture in UK of where and how medical research funding spent• UKCRC Health Research Analysis (2006) examined spend of largest UK

biomedical funders (excluded industry)• Identified 8 categories of Research Activity: showed that a third of

funding directed at underpinning research and a third at aetiology. Little spending directed at prevention or disease management.

• Identified 20 Health categories: showed that cancer receives nearly a third of funding, followed by neurological, infection, cardiovascular and inflammation and immune systems.