Supporting research with open services at the British Library, Sara Gould, OpenCon Oxford 2019
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Talk on Supporting research with open services at the British Library by Sara Gould, Repository Services Lead, Research Services, The British Library. Presented at OpenCon Oxford, 6th December 2019.
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Supporting research with open services at the British Library, Sara Gould, OpenCon Oxford 2019
- 1. Supporting research with open services at the British Library Oxford OpenCon, 6 Dec 2019 Sara Gould, Repository Services Lead
- 2. www.bl.uk British Library research British Library research outputs: https://www.bl.uk/research-collaboration
- 3. www.bl.uk British Library research • Exhibitions • Collections-based research • Assess & interpret new collection items • Preservation & conservation • Big data e.g. Living with Machines • Library infrastructure – metadata, data exchange, scholarly comms, web archiving 3
- 4. www.bl.uk Open deposit policy for staff • Wider accessibility of publicly-funded research, combined with flexible re-use conditions, will raise the social, economic and cultural impact of UK research • Requires staff to make research openly available • ORCiD identifier is encouraged 4
- 5. British Library research repository https://bl.iro.bl.uk
- 8. All theses by date
- 9. Recent years, by date
- 10. Full text theses
- 11. Data.bl.uk - open datasets
- 13. British Library’s research repository https://bl.iro.bl.uk
- 15. Repository aims • Make Library’s research more discoverable • Promote the research undertaken by Library staff • Improve the research profile of individual staff • Supports BL Open Access policy • A place to put your research outputs • Meet funder requirements • Further collaboration and potential funding opportunities
- 16. BL is an Independent Research Organisation
- 17. Shared Research Repository: pilot partners National Museums Scotland Tate British Museum Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
- 19. Tate case study: potential repository content This is a very rough estimate of research outputs produced by Tate or authored by Tate staff in the last 15 years. Journal articles 442 Magazine articles 500 Blog articles 28 Books 364 Video recordings 80 Audio recordings 2,500 Exhibition items 1,000 Total c. 5,000
- 21. Tate: what the repository can help with... • It allows for: • rich metadata • versioning • link to other datasets • link to publications • link to projects • acknowledgment of multiple funders • different degrees of accessibility (e.g. private, institutional, embargoed) • publishing rich metadata-only records (e.g. files on request)
- 22. www.bl.uk EThOS: https://ethos.bl.uk Shared repository: https://iro.bl.uk Open data: https://data.bl.uk Repository services: openaccess@bl.uk Sara Gould: Sara.gould@bl.uk 25
Editor's Notes
- BL as research organisation – what we’re doing to make outputs more visible & more open BL services to support researchers, moving increasingly to open
- Research underpins all core purposes of the British Library. We play a key role in the UK research community and work with national and international partners to support and stimulate research of all kinds. We lead and support research projects, supervise a range of collaborative PhDs, research placements and fellowships, and run a regular programme of training events. Our staff have extensive research expertise and we contribute actively to the development of research policy.
- Our own research activity
- No place to put, record, make available or celebrate staff research; quite hidden. 2018 – Research Services, focus on research infrastructure & support. Get our own approach sorted out first – Open deposit policy for staff research outputs. Not contractual, highly encouraged.
- So we built a repos- more in a minute but first, open services for researchers:
- 522,964 titles. Every HEI. 56% have FT available. 2-3000 added every month. 208000 held in EThOS – plus links to IRs. One of BL’s most heavily used services for researchers - >50k theses accessed via EThOS a month.
- 2. EThOS: We also have various open research services, providing open access for our users to key research content. EThOS here … 500k m/d records (a dataset in its own right); 200k files mainly pdf EThOS is not currently OA – downloads behind a login – but will be in new system.
- Note this is based on Ethos data, hence 2018 still coming in.
- 56% - more than half of all theses ever written are available for immediate d/l. V impressive – v popular service.
- Four possible statuses for the full text – change to this display 2 yrs ago was great, now v clear and embargoes correctly displayed (where known)
- Dewey > broad subject headings Dept names, Jacs,, LC all mapped to Dewey
- Data.bl.uk – mixed bag, cat cards, keylogging data, csv files of m/d. Challenge to migrate was size of files. Open datasets available for immediate free download, around 110 sets with total 5TB, ranging from tiny files (folders with lots of tiny files) to 400gb. Breakdown = 30% <10gb; 30% 10 -100gb; 30% >100gb. Set up by BL Labs, focus is on the datasets – descriptive bibliographic metadata sometimes takes second place to descriptions of file formats, file sizes & best unzipping tools. All have DOIs assigned by DataCite (BL is UK agency). Current service has issues due to size of files – throttling, multiple warnings of file sizes, zipped files, not findable in google. Both EThOS and Data.bl.uk in dire need of new platforms.
- RECOPY PAGE Is open – webbpages, fully accessible without barriers. But not a ‘proper’ OA journal – editorial board, clear licence terms articulated. More imp – not discoverable through research routes – indexing services etc.
- BL repo. Currently 500 items, 50+ BL staff. Learning from HE experience, new for BL
- One example of content - bviously for us (and other cultural heritage orgs), exhibitions are an important channel for us to communicate the value of our collections – and an enormous amount of research goes into each one. Exhibition labels, exhibition boards, exhibit lists, associated events can all be recorded here. The repository system we’re using supports use of UV – ties in nicely with the Library’s participation in the UV programme.
- So we need somewhere to do this
- BL=IRO – If we are doing this for ourselves, why not offer it as a service for other similarly-placed organisations as well. Offer shared repos services; benefits – i) combined resource will have more impact & higher volumes of traffic; ii) modern product more suited to range of research (sound, video … geomapping data, code); iii) for others, BL has the expertise and is the logical org to host this; iv) if public funding then mandated OA. Start with IROs; strong interest, has potential to expand as a service.
- There are, of course, several issues, e.g. copyright, image rights, authorship, confidentiality, file type and size… some are common challenges, some others are specific to certain outputs … but this is the easiest part!
- Heavily used Tate website, but house journal and Tate research not discoverable through research channels. So we are liaising with our UKWA colleagues to adjust settings where needed, then we will work with Jane and her colleagues to get this added into the metadata, by creating a field for an archival URL.
- Having a OA Repository is a strong incentive to improve internal practices of data management and stewardship and to allocate more resources into that