Making search simpler

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 Hodgkinj.hodgkin@nhm.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0) 20 75635

Project wiki: http://nhmlib.wikispaces.com

Website: www.nhm.ac.uk/library

BHL: www.nhm.ac.uk/library