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Making search simplerThe NHM Library and Archives Virtual Library Project
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Special Books19%
Museum Archives
6%
Modern Col-lections
1850-192019%
Modern Col-lections post 1920
59%
Born digital1%
Our Collections
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From multiple access points…
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... to a single search box.
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Discovery Search
BHL
Archives
LibraryCatalogue
eJournals
NHM Repository
Bibliographic databases
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NHM Repository:Making your publications more visible, inside and outside the Museum
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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.
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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.
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Flexibility and Interoperability
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Looking to the future
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Go Live: 30th June 2014
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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