Research Information Centre

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Presentation By:

Stephen Andrews

Products and Services Team Leader

Science Technology & Medicine

The British Library

David Michael

Business Development Manager

Science Technology & Medicine

The British Library

19th November 2009

NHS – HE Forum

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The ‘pain points’ of research

Resource discovery - too many sources;

literature from multiple sources

Organising information – need help to store and

manage

Sharing information – 76% share ideas through

e-mail; rely on recommendations

Distributed teams - distance is a major obstacle

Mandates - reporting and depositing

Addressing the ‘pain points’ - the Research Information Centre

Developed in collaboration with Microsoft External Research

A Virtual Research Environment for collaborative research projects accessible via a web browser

Based on Microsoft SharePoint 2007

Initial focus in Biomedical Research

An adaptable, pluggable, open-access

framework for discovery, creation and

sharing of information, data, tools and

other resources

Research Information Centre – some examples of functionality

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Resource discovery (literature, datasets, internet)

Alerting (RSS feeds, literature, funding)

Collaboration (drafting proposal, scheduling, messaging, document

sharing, rating/annotation)

Personalisation (interface configuration, personal reference files)

Experiment (tools, data manipulation)

Dissemination (aid document production, upload to publisher, deposition

in repository)

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Background – Phase 1

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First closed beta release May 2008

search/discover and funding

collaboration and storage

24 diverse Bio Medicine groups tested July-Sep 2008

Feedback collated Oct 2008

Key value seen as sharing and managing research objects across

networked team

Emerging service model comprised of local instances and hosted

solutions

Research Information Centre - Future

Phase 2 Service Model

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Research Information Centre - Future

Phase 2 Beta Test

Working with existing development partners and their

research communities

Establish content / data / tools requirements via BL

engagement team

Deliver requirements within BL and externally hosted

solutions

Collate feedback for further development and shaping

future Service Proposition.

Provide continued access / support to complete the

research project if there is a desire to do so.

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Research Information Centre - Future

Phase 2 Key Collaborations - NIHR

Project Initiation

Approval Reporting Completion

Collaboration with the National Institute for Health Research to create

VRE for health researchers in NHS and academia

Using RIC technologies within NIHR research management system

Links to metrics dashboard

Outputs to UK PubMed Central repository

Research Information Centre - Future

Phase 2 Key Collaborations - NCRI

Initiating workstream with the National Cancer Research

Institute

Aim to create an API within RIC to their Oncology

Information Exchange (ONIX) portal.

Access Cancer related resources

Biomedical Data / Data Analysis Tools

Research Projects

Establishing partnership with caBIG

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Phase 2 Key Collaborations – myExperiment

Engaging with Manchester University’s team who are

delivering myExperiment

Aim to create an API within RIC to myExperiment

Enables researchers to share and execute scientific

workflows

Link via myExperiment to Taverna for creating and

executing scientific workflows

Save workflows within the RIC with associated data

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Demonstration

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Personalised home page

Finding collaborators

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Project home page

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Designing the study

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Creating RSS feeds

Searching the literature

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Searching the literature – federated sources

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Searching the literature – results page

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Searching the literature – modifying the results display

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Searching the literature – downloading content

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Searching the literature – saving queries

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Project repositories – the Document Library

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Project repositories – tagging, rating, annotating

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Recommendations

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Project repositories - bookmarks

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Project repositories - tools

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Project repositories – the Slide Library

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Searching the project repositories

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Funding

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Funding – creating a proposal

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Experimentation

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Workflows

Dissemination

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Admin Console

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Future Concepts

Research Information Centre - Future

Templates

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VRE in the Cloud

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Benefits

Enhances the BL’s credibility in science and engagement with the STM

community

Strengthens the BL’s strategic objective to support research

Promotes BL content and services to new audiences

Creates a community around content

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Questions?

email: stephen.andrews@bl.uk

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