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The Vision …
• Is to provide a single point of access to research evidence
to people outside of academia who need it for their work
• Is to provide access to the British Library’s print and digital
collections on social welfare to people who are unlikely to
visit our reading rooms
• Is to provide alerting services to keep people up-to-date
with the latest developments
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The audience…
• Social work practitioners and students
• Social work managers and learning development leads
• Researchers working in think tanks or the voluntary sector
• Policy makers and those influencing policy
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What subjects?
Services for .. Reform of … Policies on …
Children and
families
Health services
(incl. mental
health)
Welfare state
Older people Education Community
development
Disabled people Benefits Employment
Minority groups Housing and
homelessness
Substance
misuse
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What’s on the portal?
• Full text research reports
• Parliamentary papers
• Government documents
• Statistical reports
• All rights-cleared and
available free, 24/7
• All hand-selected by curators
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Welfare Reform Digest
• Monthly current awareness bulletin
• Indexes journal and magazine
articles, quality press, books
• Hotlinks to full text of articles – if free
• Otherwise link goes to journal
volumes list – here you may hit a
paywall
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British Library Collections
• Search our catalogue for details of
books, journal articles, theses, etc in
our main collections
• Articles and theses can be delivered
electronically
• Books can be borrowed through the
University Library
• This service is fee-based
• Ask your librarian to arrange an inter-
library loan
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Become a registered user
• Register in just three minutes
• Get a personalised home page
• Sign up for our newsletter
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More about our newsletter
• Tailored to your subject interests
• Delivered monthly by email
• Two or three references chosen by us
+ editorial
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Follow us on Twitter
• @blsocialwelfare
• One-two tweets per day
• Alerts to events & new portal content
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The portal is evolving
• New look – complete redesign
• Same content, presented differently
• New search over portal content – Welfare Reform Digest
and reports collection
• Frozen during data migration June – November 2015??
• Relaunch December???
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Next steps …
• Please visit the portal at:
http://www.socialwelfare.bl.uk
Steven Campion – Collections Specialist
Philip Eagle – Collections Specialist
BUSINESS, MANAGEMENT AND
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Business and Intellectual Property Collections
• Look at what resources we have, how you can
discover them and where you can look them
• Encourage you to explore and to make the connections
you need to make the most of what we have
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The Collection
• Collections built over a long period giving depth and
breadth for contemporary and historical research
• Focus on UK but usually some degree of international
coverage and some pockets of real depth
• A lot of the material can be discovered through our primary
catalogue Explore the British Library
• But some is squirrelled away in collections which can’t be
searched electronically (yet!)
• Potential for interesting (and perhaps unusual) insights
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The Collection
As you would expect - books, journals (paper and E) & e-
resources: deep collections in terms of subject coverage &
time span. Plus pockets of “special” material
• Market research reports
• Company annual reports
• Trade literature, house journals
• Woodcroft Collection: material on the history of
inventions/inventors
• Intellectual Property (patents, trade marks and designs)
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Exploring the Collection
• Explore the British Library – search from your desk
• Access to materials is easiest from the Business and IP
(BIPC) or SocSci reading rooms.
• Reference staff there will be more familiar with these
sources
• Access to some of hard copy and e-resources is restricted
just to these reading rooms
• No remote access to our e-resources (with a few
exceptions) – yet!
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Market research collection
Onsite e-access to Verdict Retail,
Mintel, Euromonitor, Frost, Key Note
Printed reports on national and
international markets since early 1980s.
Link to case studies on market research
& social science research at
http://www.esrc.ac.uk/funding-and-
guidance/tools-and-resources/british-
library/market-research.aspx
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Management & Business Studies Portal
www.mbsportal.bl.uk
Designed to help you
find and use high quality
management research
publications quickly and
easily
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Intellectual Property: patents , trade marks & designs
• For researchers IP offers a unique, very well organised
source of data for tracking technological, economic,
brand and market development over the past 150
years
• The “geography” of filings will indicate relative ( &
potential) commercial importance in particular regions
of particular kinds of technology
• BL holds the most complete collection of intellectual
property information sources in the world
• Collected internationally since the mid 19th century
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What do we mean by “intellectual property”?
Patents – How something works or the process of
making it
Trade marks – Words or logo to indicate the origin of the
products or services
Designs – The distinctive look of the product or object
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Product leaflets and catalogues (trade literature): reflecting contemporary attitudes
“.. What we have to say here is solely in
the interest of employers ….”
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Product leaflets and catalogues (trade literature) : reflecting contemporary attitudes
“… the latest and best time
recorder on the market … it
does every useful thing its
competitors do. Costs no more.
British brains and hands have
done it.”
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Changing attitudes to consumer credit
Barclays Bank Ltd Annual Report for 1966: from the Chairman’s Address
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Trade Marks and Innovation
Da Silva and Guimaraes copied data on annual TM
applications from Patent Office Annual Reports in our
collection and analysed them for extreme peaks in annual
applications per class.
Class 47: “Candles, common soap, detergents, heating oil,
matches, starch” – 1887
Class 22: “Carriages” – 1897
Class 45: “Tobacco” – late 1880s
da Silva Lopes, T. & Guimaraes, P. (2012, September). Trademarks and British Dominance in Consumer Goods
1876-1914. Paper presented at European Business History Association - Business History Society of Japan
Conference, Paris. [Online]. http://ebha-bhsj-paris.sciencesconf.org/4399/document [Accessed 30 January 2013]
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To get in touch
Business & IP 020 7412 7454
http://www.bl.uk/bipc/aboutus/contactus/
Social Sciences 020 7412 7676
http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/bldept/socsci/about/socialsciences.html
Or
Take our cards!
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News media at the
British Library
Luke McKernan
Lead Curator, News and Moving Image
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Newspapers
57,000 separate newspaper, journal, and periodical titles: approximately 100m issues (of which 60m are newspapers), from 17thC to today
Current acquisition: 1,500 newspaper and weekly/fortnightly periodical titles
Print copies acquired under legal deposit but will move increasingly towards digital acquisition
Physical access at St Pancras (print newspapers, microfilm) and Boston Spa (print newspapers), with digital access at both locations
Around one third of collection is on microfilm. If we have microfilm or digital copy, we don’t provide access to print copy
Online access to 10m newspaper pages via British Newspaper Archive (http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.com)
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Newspaper collection highlights
Thomason Tracts – 7,200 Civil War and other 17thC
newsbooks and newspapers
Burney Collection – 700 bound volumes of newspapers
1603-1818
British and Irish newspapers collected under legal
deposit since 1869
Overseas newspapers from 1631 onwards, with
extensive British Commonwealth titles (c.90 titles
currently received)
Periodicals and comics collection
Press cuttings inc Chatham House Press Library
Collection
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Newspapers – electronic resources
1.5M newspapers and news-related journals available
onsite via subscription services e.g. ProQuest, Gale
Cengage, Newsbank
Includes Times Digital Archive, Daily Mail, Daily Mirror,
Guardian/Observer, Times of India, World Newspaper
Archive, Early American Newspapers, Latin American
newspapers
International newspapers represented for Americas,
Africa, Asia, Europe and Russia, Australasia, Middle
East
Also many free newspaper sources: Gallica, Chronicling
America, Trove, Papers Past, NewspapersSG
Access onsite only
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National Newspaper BuildingBoston Spa, Yorkshire
33km of shelving
280,000 volumes
14-15% oxygen
20m-high stacks
Robotic retrieval
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British Newspaper Archivehttp://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
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Television and radio news
Began recording television and radio news programmes
receivable in the UK in May 2010
Collection now over 45,000 programmes, of which
30,000 are TV, recorded off-air from 22 channels inc.
BBC, Al-Jazeera, Russia Today, CNN, CCTV (China),
NHK, Bloomberg, France 24, World Service, LBC
40 hours of TV and 22 hours of radio now captured per
day
Born digital archive, including Electronic Programme
Guide data and subtitles where available
Access onsite only, owing to copyright restrictions, via
Broadcast News service
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Web news
Non-print legal deposit legislation introduced in April 2013
means British Library can now harvest and archive UK
websites
Annual crawl collecting 4.5M .uk websites and web pages
Harvesting over 1,000 UK news websites on daily/weekly
basis, with particular interest in hyperlocal news
Targeting of particular news events e.g. death of Nelson
Mandela, including social media
Access onsite only at British Library and other legal
deposit libraries
Small number of sites available to all via UK Web Archive
– http://www.webarchive.org.uk
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The Newsroom
Main reading room for news media
Opened at St Pancras March 2014 – on Floor 2
Reading room with networking annexe
Provides access to newspapers (digital, microfilm and
print), television, radio and Web news
Access to print newspapers only where a ‘surrogate’
copy (digital or microfilm) does not exist. Delivery of
print newspapers takes 48 hours
Workshops, seminars etc.
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Any questions?
Luke McKernan – Lead Curator, News & Moving Image
Stephen Lester – Newspaper Curator
Web - http://www.bl.uk/subjects/news-media
Blog - http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/thenewsroom
Twitter - @BL_newsroom
General enquiries