Soc sci combined

Welcome to the British Library
Dr Sarah Evans
Research Engagement
Manager, Humanities and Social
Science

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Housekeeping
#Blopenday
#blsocsciPhD
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Two Sites,
One British Library.
“We make our intellectual
heritage accessible to
everyone, for research,
inspiration and enjoyment.”

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Research Supports Our Purposes…

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Doctoral students at the BL
• Doctoral Open Days
• Collaborative Doctoral Partnerships
• National and International Collaborations
• EThOS
• PhD Student Placements
• Conferences, Training and Events
Use us as a research
resource every day!
This extends far
beyond our Reading
Rooms….

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Our Staff, Our Collections…

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European and American Collections
• Five curatorial areas:
– Americas
– Romance
– Germanic
– Southeast European
– Slavonic & East European
• Also includes Australia, the Pacific and English-language Asian material
• Americas works closely with Eccles Centre for American Studies
• Blogs: http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/european/ &
http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/americas/
• Twitter: @BL_European & @_Americas & @BL_EcclesCentre

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US, Canadian, Latin and Caribbean
Resources
• US official publications – largest outside the US
• A range of bibliographic guides, including detailed
published bibliographies by the Eccles Centre
• We hold extensive collections of Canadian
government documents
• We hold the largest collection of Latin American
material in the UK, from the 16th century to the present
day
• We hold the largest collection of Caribbean material in
the UK

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Research, Opinion, Interpretation
Contribute? Email: Research.Development@bl.uk

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Research, Opinion, Interpretation

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Events & Exhibitions Onsite
www.bl.uk/whats-on

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Events & Exhibitions Online

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How To Videos…
www.youtube.com/user/britishlibrary

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PhD placements
• Call Now Open!
• Deadline: Feb 18th
• Start from June 2016
• 3 months duration
• Institutional support needed
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What’s the worst that can happen?

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1 Minute: You & Your Research
•Your Name
•Your University or
Institute
•Your research and why
its interesting to you
Let’s be clear, this is not 1 min!

Enjoy the Day!
Dr Sarah Evans
Research Engagement Manager,
Humanities and Social Science
sarah.evans@bl.uk

Finding and Using
the British Library Collections
Social Science Reference Service
2016

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Our Collections
 Legal Deposit copies of all items published within the UK and Ireland.
 The world’s largest Maps and Rare Books (pre-1850) collections.
 Over 34,000 Newspaper titles or 60 million individual issues.
 Over 60m patents – the largest collection in the World.
 5 million reports, theses and conference papers.
 Over 6.5 million sound recordings.

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Using Our Collections
Items are stored either in our
basements (70 minute delivery time)
or in West Yorkshire (48hr+ delivery
time).
The majority of the 170 million items
we hold are in storage, and need to
be ordered.
12 kilometres of storage space are
taken up each year.

Asian & African Studies
Business & Intellectual Property
Humanities
Maps & Manuscripts
Newsroom
Rare Books & Music
Science
Social Sciences
Sound & Vision

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Getting a Reader Pass
 Access to the Reading Rooms is free but Reader Pass required.
 You can pre-register online and when you visit go to Reader Registration
with:
Proof of signature (e.g. your passport or driving licence)
Proof of address (e.g. a bank statement or utility bill)
A list of some items you want to see
Your student card
 Only certain types of ID are suitable.
 Please check our Reader Registration webpages.

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Social Sciences Reading Room
 Provides access to social science material, government publications
and law.
 Support all types of researcher – academic, charity/voluntary sector,
government, business and the public.
 We provide information on a wide range of social science disciplines
and current and historic government publications.
 Access point for the British Library’s collections of UK and foreign legal
materials and statistics.

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Electronic Resources
 Wide range of online databases covering all social science subjects and
official publications that are available for use in the reading room:
http://electronicresources.bl.uk/sfxlcl41/az/londb
 Also a wide range of electronic journals and articles available via
Explore the British Library.
 Complete list of electronic resources in BL:
http://www.bl.uk/eresources/main.shtml
 Internet access is also available.

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http://www.bl.uk/eresources/socscci/hub.html

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Reference Services in the reading room
 Answer any subject specific enquiries.
 Help with use of our catalogues and subscribed resources.
 Guide readers to the most appropriate material for their research.
 Advise on how to access and use our collections.
 Suggest alternative libraries, archives and institutions, relevant websites
and free online resources.
 Offer regular workshops and training on British Library resources.

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Remote Reference Services
 Remote enquiry service via our ‘Ask the Reference Team’ Service.
 Remote enquiry via our ‘Chat Service’.
 Document Supply (ask your university/institution library for details on
whether this service is available).
 For general news and updates regarding the Reading Rooms follow
us on twitter @BL_Ref_Services.

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Other resources of interest
 UK Web Archive - http://www.webarchive.org.uk/ukwa/
 Social Welfare Portal - http://socialwelfare.bl.uk/
 Management and Business Studies Portal -
http://www.mbsportal.bl.uk/
 Social Sciences Blog -
http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/socialscience/

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Thank you - any questions?
Ask a Reference Team:
www.bl.uk/reference-contacts
Chat service:
via http://explore.bl.uk
Help for Researchers:
http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/index.html
Twitter: @BL_Ref_Services

Digital Research
Dr Aquiles Alencar-Brayner
Digital Curator
@AquilesBrayner
http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-
scholarship/

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Digital Scholarship at British Library
“The production, use and
integration of digital content,
services and tools to facilitate
scholarship and research. It
allows research areas to be
investigated in new ways,
using new tools, leading to
new discoveries and analysis
to generate new
understanding”
-Adam Farquhar
Head of Digital Scholarship
Created in 2010, the department
works to enable….
• production of digital content
• sharing and integration of
digital content
• wider collaboration and
contribution around digital content
• complex analysis & facilitation of
new discoveries

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More than resource discovery…
• Libraries and archives have spent the
last two decades making digital assets
and harvesting born-digital objects.
• We can now do much more than use
technology to discover these digital
objects and embrace the opportunities
afforded by an intellectual turn toward
digitally-driven research
• So digital research is about:
– New tools
– New discoveries
– New understanding
“The emergence of the new
digital humanities [and
social sciences] isn’t an
isolated academic
phenomenon. The
institutional and disciplinary
changes are part of a larger
cultural shift, inside and
outside the academy, a
rapid cycle of emergence
and convergence in
technology and culture”
Steven E Jones, Emergence of
the Digital Humanities (2013)

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Digital Libraries: 10 “in” rules
1.Integrity: access to digital
object as it has been created
2.Integration: different contents
and file formats available from a
single platform
3.Interoperability: different
programmes and operating
systems compatible with each
other
4.Instant access: unrestricted
access to material, especially
from mobile devices
5.Interaction: catalogues that
provide Web 2.0 features (blogs,
wikis, tags, content sharing, etc)
6.Information: comprehensive
metadata for fast and reliable
retrieval of content
7.Ingest of content: constant
upload of new digital content
8. Interpretation: digital content placed in
relation to other items in the collection
9.Innovation: material to be presented in
innovative ways
10.Indefinite access: digital objects to be
preserved for posterity

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Scalability: how to filter, find and analyse
the information I need?
• How many data is generated in
ONE day?
1. Twitter: 7 TB
2. Facebook: 10 TB
• By 2020 we will have
approximately 35 ZB (1.1 Trillion
GB) of Data available

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Analysis of digital content
• Ngram Viewer applied to
Web Archive collections
• Visualisation: Tag Cloud
• BL Georeferencer

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Personal Digital Archive (PDA)
• Extracting and archiving digital content
from personal devices
• Assist with capture, management,
description, and preservation of
personal digital collections to facilitate
access and content analysis
• Data analysis beyond documents

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http://www.bl.uk/projects/british-library-labs
1st February 2016 – BL Labs Roadshow 2016
Presentation at #citylis, London

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BL Labs
• BL Labs
• British Library Mechanical
Curator
• Digital Music Labs
• Off the Map

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BL Labs research: Political Meetings
Mapper
“I was able to do in minutes with a python code what I’d spent the last ten years trying to do by
hand!”
-Dr. Katrina Navickas, BL Labs Winner 2015
5,519 meetings discovered in 462 towns and villages across the UK!
http://politicalmeetingsmapper.co.uk/maps/

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Web Based Tools: some examples
• Wordle tool for generating “word clouds” from text
that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence
to words that appear more frequently in the source
text.
• Google Trends Look at search trends in
Google. Browse by date, or look at top searches in
different categories to see how it trended over time and
location.
• Google Public Data Explorer search
through databases from around the world, including
the World Bank, OECD, Eurostat and the U.S. Census
Bureau.
• Google Ngram Viewer search keywords in
millions of books over the span of half a millennium, a
useful tool for finding trends over time. Ngram Viewer
also has advanced options, such as searching for
particular keywords as specific parts of speech or
combining keywords

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discipline
camp and
camps sentence
Ngram Viewer ©
Google

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New Tools, New Discoveries
• Crowd as a source
– UK Sound Map
• Open Access Software for
Research:
• http://sourceforge.net/

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Task time
During your break, find a flip-chart and consider one
of the following questions:
– What analytical tools(s) would you like to use/develop for your
research? (Flipcharts 1 and 2/ Jan – March)
– What are the ethical considerations when using digital data?
(Flipcharts 3 and 4/ April – June)
– Should all social science research be published openly?
(Flipcharts 5 and 6 / July – Sept)
– How might computational methods change the nature of
collaboration in the social sciences? (Flipcharts 7 and 8/ Oct –
Dec)
Be prepared to offer a short response which captures the thoughts of your group!

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Thank you!
@AquilesBrayner (aquiles.alencarbrayner@bl.uk)
Follow the Digital Scholarship Blog:
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Thank you!
@AquilesBrayner (aquiles.alencarbrayner@bl.uk)
Follow the Digital Scholarship Blog:
http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/

News media at the
British Library
Luke McKernan
Lead Curator, News and Moving Image
luke.mckernan@bl.uk

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News at the British Library

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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: 1,400 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 13m 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 Building
Boston Spa, Yorkshire
 33km of shelving
 280,000 volumes
 14-15% oxygen
 20m-high stacks
 Robotic retrieval

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Newspaper database
http://explore.bl.uk

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Newspaper database
http://explore.bl.uk

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British Newspaper Archive
http://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 68,000 programmes, of which
52,000 are TV, recorded off-air from 24 channels inc.
BBC, Al-Jazeera, Russia Today, CNN, CCTV (China),
NHK, Bloomberg, France 24, World Service, LBC
 30 hours of TV and 20 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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Broadcast News
http://videoserver.bl.uk (onsite only)

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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 1,800 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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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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News Media
http://www.bl.uk/subjects/news-media

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Any questions?
 Luke McKernan – Lead Curator, News & Moving Image
 luke.mckernan@bl.uk
 Stephen Lester – Newspaper Curator
 stephen.lester@bl.uk
 Web - http://www.bl.uk/subjects/news-media
 Blog - http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/thenewsroom
 Twitter - @BL_newsroom
 General enquiries
 newspaper@bl.uk
 broadcastnews@bl.uk

Social Welfare and Policy
Research at the British Library
Michelangelo Staffolani,
Research Engagement
12 February 2016

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1. Today
•Overview of the library’s sources for social welfare
and policy research
•In the reading rooms and online
•Demonstration of Social Welfare Portal
•Questions & Answers

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2. Collection overview
• Books, reports and academic
journals
• Coverage: all aspects of social
policy and welfare worldwide
• particular strengths in the UK,
North America, Eastern and
central Europe, and English-
language works published in Asia
and Australasia.
• Official publications

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3. In the reading rooms
• Books published in the past three years in subject order
(gradual transition to e-books)
• One-year runs of core journals, filed in alphabetical order of
title (gradual transition to e-journals)
• Five-year runs of official and non-official series of social
statistics
• E-journals, electronic databases and publishers’ collections
• Finding aides: catalogues, Reference Desk, collection
guides

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4. Also
• Sound recordings (i.e. oral history; some available online
on www.sounds.bl.uk)
• Newspapers and news media
• The UK Web Archive
• Datasets
• Theses
• Private papers
• Maps

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5. Online: the Social Welfare Portal
• A British Library website for social welfare and social policy
research; URL: http://socialwelfare.bl.uk/
• brings together print and digital collections
• Contains downloadable full text research reports, working
papers, book chapters, and articles from high-quality publishers
of social policy research
• Available in the reading rooms and remotely
• Can be tailored to suit your interests and can alert you to new
content which matches your subject interest
• Free to use

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6. What are the benefits
• 24-7 access to full text, high quality digital content – for
free
• Find more relevant material: access to hard to find
research reports or material which can be hidden behind
membership barriers
• Save time: find print and digital formats in one search
interface, from your own desk.
• User led: user panels will help develop the site so that
the portal will always represent their needs.

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7. Content available online
• Reports by government departments (i.e. DH, DWP, DoE,
DCLG) and Parliament (Committees, NAO)
• Research by think tanks (i.e. Class, The Resolution
Foundation)
• Briefings and reports by charities and campaign groups (i.e.
Shelter, Mind, the Refugee Council)
• Welfare reform digest 1998-2015

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8. Demonstration:
www.socialwelfare.bk.uk

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9. Thank you – any questions?
Michelangelo.Staffolani@bl.uk
0207 412 7164

Business & Intellectual
Property – resources for
researchers
Lola Mattos & Philip Eagle

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• Look at what resources we have – contemporary and
historical
• Help you to explore and access our collections
• Help you make connections and make the most of what we
have

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• Collections built over a long period giving depth and
breadth for contemporary and historical research
• UK focus but good degree of international coverage and
some pockets of real depth
• Start your research with Explore http://explore.bl.uk
• But some (quite a lot!) recorded in other places (not always
online)
• Ask for assistance at the Reference Enquiries desk

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Business information at the British Library
• Financial data on British companies
• Start-up business publications, market research reports,
trade directories, business and trade journals
• Government, legal and statistical data plus technical
publications and newspapers
• Academic Business & Management publications
• Business & Management Studies portal
• Special Collections e.g. Oral History, Patents and
Trademarks

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The Business & IP Centre:
• Market research – to spot
trends, identify opportunities
and competitors
• Company data – to research
companies and build marketing
lists
• Business news – to keep up to
date with industry and business
updates
• Small business help – practical
information to help business
starts and grow, from tax to
trademarking

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Market research
• Onsite e-access to:
Mintel, Key Note,
Passport Euromonitor,
Frost & Sullivan, ISI
Emerging Markets
• Printed national and
international reports
since early 1980’s and
earlier material

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Company data
• On-site e-access to:
FAME, Orbis, One
Source, Market IQ
• Selection of annual
reports from national and
international companies
• Pre-1940 Trade
Literature collection from
UK companies

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Business News
• Onsite e-access to:
Business Source
Complete, Factiva, ABI
Inform
• Large selection of
business journals,
reports and trade
magazines

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Small Business Help
• Books explaining how to run
particular types of business
• General accessible guides to
starting a business or developing
and protecting innovations
• Practical books on specific
business skills and attributes
• Autobiographical works by well-
known entrepreneurs if the focus
is on business
• Practical guides on law for
business and creative people

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Explore our collections for management research at
http://www.mbsportal.bl.uk/
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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 ….”
94

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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.”
95

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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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Changing attitudes to consumer credit
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Trade marks and innovation
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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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1885
• Sunlight Soap – first packaged and branded soap.
100

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1880s-90s
• Pneumatic tyres and diamond-framed “safety” bicycle
101

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1883
• Bonsack cigarette machine
102

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Internet gambling: how many?
• Mintel: In last month, of UK adults
• 16% bet on sports online
• 9.1% played online bingo
• 5% played online poker
• 5.1% played another online gambling game
• eMarketer: 10% of internet users have gambled in past
week
• Mintel. (2012). Online Gaming & Betting. London. Mintel.
• eMarketer. (2012) . Online Activities of UK Internet Users Q1 2012. New York, NY. eMarketer
• 103

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Gambling safety?
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“Quick fold” functionality on poker sites:
Move to a new game as soon as you fold
How fast is too fast?
How many games per session?

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To get in touch
Business & IP Centre
bipc@bl.uk
0207 412 7454
http://www.bl.uk/business-and-ip-centre
Social Sciences
social-sciences@bl.uk
020 7412 7676
http://www.bl.uk/socialsciences

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Web Archiving in
the UK
Jason Webber (British Library)
@jasonmarkwebber / @UKWebArchive

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Why archive
the web?

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The lost web: politics

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The lost web: organisations
tvpa.police.uk (archived 21/11/12) at UK Web Archive

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The lost web: culture

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The lost web: news

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What is still on the web?
http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/webarchive/2014/10/what-is-still-on-the-web-after-10-years-of-
archiving-.html

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Three UK Web Archives
1. Open UK Web Archive
2. Legal Deposit Web
Archive
3. JISC UK Domain dataset

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1. Open UK Web Archive
• Selective archiving since 2004
• 15,000 sites
• All six UK Legal deposit libraries
• Plus many collaborators: Women’s
Library, Live Art Development
Agency, NHS, HLF
• Accessible via:
http://webarchive.org.uk

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A lost website, saved

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A typical special collection

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A comprehensive special collection

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2. UK Legal Deposit Web Archive
We collect
•.uk and other UK geographic top-level
domains, i.e. .london, .scot, .cymru, .wales
•Websites hosted in the UK
•Website owner has UK address

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What may we NOT collect?
• Film and recorded sound where the audio-visual content
predominates
• Private intranets and emails
• Personal data in social networking sites or that are only
available to restricted groups.

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Legal Deposit: Access and Use

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Access: via explore.bl.uk

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Searching the Legal Deposit

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Open UKWA vs Legal Deposit WA
Open UKWA Legal Deposit Web Archive
Scale 15,000 websites 20 million websites
Workflow Curation and selection Automatic harvesting
Permission
to archive
Required Not required (if ‘in scope’)
Access Online (globally) LDL Reading rooms only
Nature of QA Quality control leading to
de-selection
Flagging up quality issues

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UK Legal Deposit Domain Crawl
• 2013
– 3.8 million seeds (starting URLs)
– 31TB data
– 1.9 billion web pages and other assets
• 2014
– 20 million seeds
– Geo IP check of UK hosted websites (2.5 million seeds)
– 56TB data
– 2.5 billion webpages and other assets
– Includes: Viruses: 4.7GB, Screenshots: 3.2TB

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Focused crawls
• Rapid response crawl of news of the death of Mrs Thatcher
• Focused collection on National Health Service Reform
• Scottish Independence referendum
• Commonwealth Games
2015
• WW1 Centenary
• UK General Election
• Magna Carta

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3. JISC UK Web Domain Dataset 1996-
2010
• Funded by JISC to create a research collection of UK
websites
• Collaboration between the Internet Archive, JISC and the
British Library
• No local access – possible through the Internet Archive
http://www.webarchive.org.uk/shine

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Thank you
jason.webber@bl.uk
@jasonmarkwebber / @UKWebArchive
www.webarchive.org.uk/
britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/webarchive

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UKWA videos
•What is a web archive -
https://youtu.be/ubDHY-ynWi0
•What does the UK Web Archive
collect -
https://youtu.be/1QLMPIRwJEo

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