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UK PubMed Central within the open access movement
Richard Boulderstone Director of e-Strategy and Programmes
British Library
BioMed Central Colloquium
Thursday 8th February 2007, The Royal College of Physicians, London, UK
UKPMC
‘We exist for everyone who wants todo research – for academic, personal,or commercial purposes.’ - BL Strategy 2005/8
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‘This is the life blood of research and innovation’
3 main funding streams:•DCMS grant-in-aid (£89m) •Annual trading income (£25m)•Donations (£4m)
Generates value to the UK economy each year of 4.4 times public funding
Helping people advance knowledge to enrich lives
National library of the UK.
Serves researchers, business, libraries, education & the general public
Collection includes over 2m sound recordings, 5m reports, theses and conference papers, the world’s largest patents collection (c.50m)
The largest document supply service in the world. Secure e-delivery and ‘just in time’ digitisation enables desktop delivery within 2 hours.
1.4m articles delivered in 2005/6 (80% STM)
Over 250 years of collecting. Beneficiary of legal deposit, and £15m annual acquisitions budget
3 main sites in London and Yorkshire. 2,250 staff
Collection fills over 600km of shelving and grows at 11km per year
1.25 Tb of digital material through voluntary deposit
Science and Innovation Investment Framework 2004-2014, H.M. Treasury (2004) Information infrastructure2.23 The growing UK research base must have ready and efficient access to information of all kinds – such as experimental data sets, journals, theses, conference proceedings and patents. This is the life blood of research and innovation.
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UKPMC Project
Based on PubMed Central (PMC) – the US National Institute of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature
Provides a stable, permanent and free-to-access online digital archive of full-text, peer-reviewed research publications.
Driven by deposit mandates and recommendations from the funders
Launched in January 2007 Mirroring the PMC database Implementing a manuscript submission system - UKMSS - to
enable UK scientists to submit their research papers for inclusion in UKPMC.
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UKPMC – The Partnership
Information Services
Core Biology
Data
Biomedical andBioinformatics
Research
Document Management and
Publishing
Text Mining and
Data Linking
Document Storage and
Access
Resource Discovery
University of Manchester• Hosts the service• Builds ‘small-scale’ developments• Engages the HE community• Shapes future R&D
The British Library• Takes prime contractor role• Manages the grantee database• Marks up author submissions• Creates the marketing collateral• Promotes to the broader user community• Provides long-term preservation
European Bioinformatics Institute• Creates the links to the data • Integrates it with other repositories• Develops the discovery interface
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UKPMC - Building on the Team’s experience & expertise
UKPMC is a natural fit with current business of the team members
The British Library Builds on existing information services and relationships with the scientific
community including NLM (2,000,000 STM Articles Delivered In 2005). Benefits from 10 years of expertise in the ingest, storage and preservation
of e-journals
The University of Manchester Gains from the University’s reputation as the major academic centre for
bioinformatics (5 & 5* Ratings in RAE 2001) Capitalises on MIMAS’ role as a national data centre hosting and
supporting a complex blend of services for the scientific community (e.g. CrossFire and ISI Web of Knowledge)
The European Bioinformatics Institute Builds on the informatics services provided to the biomedical community
over the past 20 years including the biology datasets hosted at EBI Exploits existing literature-data links and services based on text mining
technologies and the close relationship with NCBI
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Enhanced linking (EBI + other
datasets)
Preservation
Grant reporting tool
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Phase 3
Full text searching
Integration with
repositories
UKPMC build
2008-2010
Small-scale developments
QA Ingest
MarketingGrant
reporting tool
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Phase 2
Implement mirror
Phase 1
January 2007
2007-2008
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Current Status
Manchester Purchased IT infrastructure to support UKPMC, includes:
Repository for NLM DTD formatted papers (800,000 – 2 TBytes) Submission system (NIHMS)
Testing functionality in ‘standalone’ IT environment (outside NCBI) British Library
Hired Marketing professional and creating marketing plan Selected 3rd party vendor for NLM DTD mark up and created QA
process Built grants database from funding organisations Set up help desk for authors
EBI Defining strategy for future development of UKPMC
Initial Go Live = 8 January 2007
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Early Use of UKPMC
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Integrated with
community interfaces
Enhanced content
BLcatalogue
Accessed via bibliographic
data
Publisher sites
Local ‘MEDLINE plus’
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
UKPMC – embedding in the European bioscience environment
UKPMC
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The Vision
Placing UKPMC at the centre of UK bioscience research Creating a ‘European PubMed’ – an entry point to data and
text tailored to the European domain Expanding the content available by providing links to the
British Library’s extensive back-catalogue and negotiating UKPMC deposition with publishers
Supplementing the EBI datasets by linking to the UKPMC research archive
Linking documents to scientific data to support the interdisciplinary nature of research
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The Vision
Embedding the service within the research environment – e-Framework, e-science and Intute
Extending knowledge through the mining and visualising of data, using tools being developed at EBI and Manchester
Providing new metrics for authors and funders to help assess the quality of research
Supporting ‘social publishing’, novel peer-review mechanisms and innovative publication discussion forums
Ensuring the permanence of UKPMC by preserving its content in the British Library’s Digital Object Management preservation store
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Summary
Placing UKPMC at the centre of bioscience research Builds on the existing strengths and synergy of the partners
Community Delivery Preservation
Provides a platform for the development of new services to the UK and European biomedical research communities
Gives us an opportunity to explore new avenues of scholarly communication and ways of managing the outputs of research