Post on 03-Jul-2015
“It is something wonderful”
the Biodiversity Heritage Library:
a Science Library for Global Learning
Rebecca Morin
User Services Librarian
California Academy of Sciences
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Members
American Museum of Natural History (New York)
Academy of Natural Sciences (Philadelphia)
California Academy of Sciences (San Francisco)
Field Museum (Chicago)
Natural History Museum (London)
Smithsonian Institution Libraries (Washington)
Missouri Botanical Garden (St. Louis)
New York Botanical Garden (New York)
Royal Botanic Garden, Kew
Botany Libraries, Harvard University
Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University
Marine Biological Laboratory / Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Global Reach / Global Impact
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Why?
Who Uses It?
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Usage 2010
• 837,000 Visits
• 422,000 Unique Visitors
• 4.2 Million Page Views
• 221 Countries/Territories
More than 80% of visitors seek information in
• Systematics
• Taxonomy
• Nomenclature
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Multiple Means of Access
• BHL: 18.65%
• Referring Sites: 38.13%
• EOL
• Wikipedia
• Tropicos
• Smithsonian
• BioOne
• Animal Base
• Search Engines: 43.12%
Source: Google Analytics (Oct. 2010 – Jan. 2011)
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Encyclopedia of Life
Encyclopedia of Life/BHL Interface
EOL BHL
PAGE LEVEL ACCESS @ THE TAXONOMIC NAME
BHL & OCLC
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BHL & OCLC
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BHL & OCLC
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What Does BHL Do For Me?
• Bibliographies
• Name Searching
• Taxonomic Intelligence
• Complete Items
• PDF Creation
• APIs
• Stable URLs
Connecting Content
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A Ready Partnership
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Connecting Content
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Linking Field Notes & Specimens
“Connecting Content” will help us gather information from here…
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Linking Field Notes & Specimens & Literature
…And connect it to literature in BHL
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What Have We Learned?
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Researchers want article-level access
What Have We Learned?
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Users want contact
User Feedback
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What Have We Learned?
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Give users options
Pay Attention to Users
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Nov. 2010 – Jan. 2011
• 370 user issues recorded
• 46% scan requests
• 62% resolved
63% of requests from 10 users
Feedback
Oct. 2010 – Jan. 2011
• 292,304 visits
• 1,586,562 pageviews
• 137,900 unique visitors
• 207 different countries/territories
BHL Use
“…For a student like me who is from one
of the poorest countries on earth where
there are not enough libraries and even
the existing libraries do not have enough
literature, it is something wonderful.
Thanks to those people who created it.”
Sajan Subedi
BHL User
Thank You!
Special Thanks To
The Institute of Museum and Library Services
Bianca Crowley, Martin Kalfatovic, Suzanne
Pilsk & everyone else at BHL
The “Connecting Content” Partners
Danielle Castronovo
rmorin@calcademy.org Twitter: @tiny_librarian