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Making search simpler

Making search simpler. The NHM Library and Archives Virtual Library Project. Our Collections. From multiple access points… . ... t o a single search box. Archives. BHL. Library Catalogue. Discovery Search. Bibliographic databases. eJournals. NHM Repository. NHM Repository:

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Making search simpler

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  1. Making search simpler The NHM Library and Archives Virtual Library Project

  2. Our Collections

  3. From multiple access points…

  4. ... to a single search box.

  5. Archives BHL Library Catalogue Discovery Search Bibliographic databases eJournals NHM Repository

  6. NHM Repository: Making your publications more visible, inside and outside the Museum

  7. 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 • Nearly3 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.

  8. 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.

  9. Flexibility and Interoperability

  10. Looking to the future

  11. Go Live: 30th June 2014

  12. For more info… Flexibility James Hodgkin j.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

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