Digital Programs & Initiatives @ Smithsonian LibrariesScholarly Communications | Digital Library | Biodiversity Heritage Library

Martin R. KalfatovicAssociate Director | BHL Program Director

National Library of Medicine visit to Smithsonian Libraries 29 June 2017 | Washington, DC

Anacostia Community Museum LibraryNational Air and Space Museum LibraryNational Museum of African American History & Culture LibraryNational Museum of American History LibraryNational Postal Museum LibrarySmithsonian Institution Libraries Research AnnexThe Vine Deloria, Jr. Library, National Museum of the American Indian

History and Culture

Smithsonian American Art / Portrait Gallery LibraryCooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design LibraryFreer and Sackler Galleries LibraryHirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden LibraryWarren M. Robbins Library, National Museum of African Art

Art and Design

Botany and Horticulture LibraryJohn Wesley Powell Library of AnthropologyMuseum Support Center LibraryNational Museum of Natural History LibraryNational Zoological Park LibrarySmithsonian Environmental Research Center LibraryEarl Tupper Library, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

Sciences

Dibner Library of the History of Science and TechnologyJoseph F. Cullman 3rd Library of Natural History

Special Collections

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Smithsonian Libraries

ScholarlyCommunications

SCHOLARLY PUBLISHINGEXPONENTIAL GROWTH OF ARTICLES

Global scientific output doubles every nine years

Source: http://blogs.nature.com/news/2014/05/global-scientific-output-doubles-every-nine-years.html

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SMITHSONIAN SCHOLARLY PUBLISHINGWHAT WE HAVE IN RESEARCH ONLINE

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Growth of annual number of publications by Smithsonian authors in Research Online (from 1843-2016)

OVER 80K PUBLICATIONS SINCE 1843

SMITHSONIAN RESEARCH ONLINERESEARCH.SI.EDU

80K records

1843-present

25K records

2006-present

75% of recent have DOI

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Research Bibliography –metadata only

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Institutional Repository

Digital Repository- Mostly PDF but also metadata, datasets, mobi/epub

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SCIENCE

HISTORY &

CULTURE

ART

OTHER

What We Publish

Lots of Science, sure.

But enough of the “other stuff” to cause headaches

12,115 publications since 2012 79,846 total publications since 1846

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NATURAL

HISTORY

MUSEUM

ASTROPHYSICAL

OBSERVATORY

TROPICAL

RESEARCH

INSTITUTE

NATIONAL

ZOO

ENVIRONMENTAL

RESEARCH CENTER

MUSEUM

CONSERVATION

INSTITUTE

Science Publications in Research Online

From astrophysics to zebra reproduction, 10:1 journal articles to everything else

9,834 Science publications since 2012 library.si.edu

AIR & SPACE

MUSEUM

AMERICAN

HISTORY

MUSEUM

POSTAL

MUSEUM

FOLKLIFE

AMERICAN

INDIAN

ANACOSTIA

AFRICAN AMERICAN

HISTORY AND CULTURE

ASIAN PACIFIC

AMERICAN CENTER

1,376 History & Culture publications since 2012

History & Culture Publications in Research Online

25% book & book chapters, 25% blog posts, 50% journal articles

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AMERICAN ART MUSEUM

FREER & SACKLER

PORTRAIT GALLERY

COOPER HEWITT

HIRSHHORN

AFRICAN

ART

350 Art publications since 2012

Art Publications in Research Online

More than half are books or book chapters

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ResearchAreas

InCites

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Research Areas

InCites(excluding Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory)

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Capturing Scholarly Communications:Workflow, Bibliometrics, & Altmetrics

Research Online Workflow

Manual Entry &

Bulk Uploads

Webform

submissions

REPOSITORY.SI.EDU

RESEARCH.SI.EDU

PROFILES.SI.EDU

Publisher

Alerts (email)

Author PDF

contributions

Staff profile pages &

internal dashboards &

Altmetric.com

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Public Access Workflow

Bibliometrics in Service of ..

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Staff Pages

data reuse

BIBLIOMETRICS AT THE SMITHSONIANREPORTING EXAMPLES

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CITATION ANALYSIS, PRODUCTIVITY, CLARIVATE INCITES, ALTMETRICS

Impact of Evolution of Terrestrial Ecosystems

ALTMETRIC SOURCESWHAT OUTLETS ALTMETRIC.COM WATCHES

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OUTPUT

News outlets & Blogs

• Over 2000 news sites

• Global coverage• 9,000+ Blogs

Social media

Twitter, Facebook, Google+,

Public posts only

Reference managers

• Mendeley, Citeulike etc

• Reader counts

Other sources

Scopus CitationsWikipediaYouTubeRedditF1000Q&A

Post-publication peer review

PublonsPubpeer

Policy documents

• NICE Evidence

• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

• & Many more…

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Top Altmetric-scoring Publications

Altmetric Explorer(spring 2017)

Profiles:Bringing it all Together?

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Smithsonian Profiles

An expertise locator using the VIVO software

Digital Library

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Smithsonian Libraries has a website!

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Smithsonian Libraries has a website! … and it’s been updated since 1996 (a few times)

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Serves as a portal to Smithsonian Libraries digital collections

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Some bookdigitization numbers

11,500,795 pages

31,017 volumes

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Using the finest equipment

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Using the finest equipment …

Which we’ve also updated over the years

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The Freer|Sackler Library's collection of Japanese rare books

Over 1,000 volumes previously owned by Charles

Lang Freer. It has beautiful, handmade works of art,

many with color illustrations or by famous artists,

published during the Edo and early Meiji periods

(1600-1868 and 1868-1912). It is a complement to the

2,028 recently digitized volumes (2014) in the

Gerhard Pulverer Collection of Illustrated Japanese

Books, one of the most important collections of

Japanese illustrated books in the world, held by the

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery.

The Library's collections are being digitized, with

funding from the Freer|Sackler, with the aim of

creating an online resource offering all the

Smithsonian's Japanese illustrated books for use by

scholars and art enthusiasts alike.

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Korin gafu (1826) by Ogata

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Print by Hiroshige (1797-1858) from the series Tokaidogojusantsugi (53 views of the Tokaido road) mounted on paper and bound into a book

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Hand-painted illustration and calligraphy text from Tsuru no soshi(early Edo period)

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Hand-painted illustration and calligraphy text from Tsuru no soshi(early Edo period)

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Somenon-bookdigitization projects

ThérèseBonney Photography

The Thérèse Bonney Photography collection contains

over 4,000 photographs which document architecture and

design in the 1920s and 1930s, primarily in Paris. Bonney

was a photojournalist who both collected and took

photographs and started an illustrated press service in

1924. Bonney’s photographic collection documents the

impact of modernism on European design, of the time.

Private bars. France, circa 1928.

Alfred Levy, designerAuto radiator cap. France, 1925-30 Cosmetics display.

France, circa 1925

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Somenon-bookdigitization projects

The E.F. Caldwell & Co. Collection

The E. F. Caldwell & Co. Collection at the Cooper-Hewitt

Museum Library, Smithsonian Institution Libraries,

contains more than 50,000 (about ½ currently online)

images consisting of approximately 37,000 black & white

photographs and 13,000 original design drawings of

lighting fixtures and other fine metal objects that they

produced from the late 19th to the mid-20th centuries.

Ceiling fixtures, Radio City Music Hall Ceiling fixtures, Rockefeller Center Harvard Club

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Somenon-bookdigitization projects

Cengage Learning Trade Literature

Smithsonian Collections Online: Trade Literature & the Merchandizing of

Industry. This collection, covering 1820 to 1926, allows researchers to

determine the history of companies and industries, discern trends in

sectors from furniture to machinery, analyze marketing and management

techniques, and examine illustrations of the items used at home and in

business. The collection exposes technological advances, architectural

advances, societal changes, and business history in a way that reveals vital

aspects of American culture, society, and history; it contains 22,132 items.

BiodiversityHeritage Library

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“The cultivation of

natural history cannot

be efficiently carried

out without reference

to an extensive

library.”

Charles Darwin, et al (1847)

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Much of this literature is

available in only a few select

libraries in the developed

world. Lack of literature is a

major impediment to the

efficiency of scientific

research.

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The Biodiversity Heritage Library

(www.biodiversitylibrary.org) is an open

access digital library for biodiversity

literature and archives.

Here you see the BHL

homepage, which you

can access at

biodiversitylibrary.org.

Simply put, BHL is an

open access digital

library for biodiversity

literature and archives.

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Inspiring Discovery through Free Access

to Biodiversity Knowledge

10+ years of inspiring discovery

15th

-21st

centuries

through free & open accessto biodiversity literature & archives

from the

Mission

The Biodiversity Heritage Library improves research

methodology by collaboratively making biodiversity

literature openly available to the world as part of a

global biodiversity community.

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Content in BHL 52+MILLION

PAGES

TITLES VOLUMES

120,000+ 203,000+

176+MILLIONINSTANCES OF TAXONOMIC NAMES

615+IN-COPYRIGHT TITLES LICENSED FOR BHL

AGREEMENTS

WITH 260+LICENSORS

*Stats as of June 2017

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BHL is a Global Consortium

18MEMBERS

AS OF JUNE 2017

18AFFILIATES60+ WORLDWIDE PARTNERS

• American Museum of Natural History

Library

• BHL Australia

• BHL México

• Cornell University Library

• Field Museum of Natural History

Library

• Harvard University Botany Libraries

• Harvard University, Museum of

Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr

Library

• Library of Congress

• The LuEsther T. Mertz Library, The

New York Botanical Garden

• Missouri Botanical Garden, Peter H.

Raven Library

• Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle

• National Library Board, Singapore

• Natural History Museum Library,

London

• Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew,

Library, Art & Archives

• Smithsonian Libraries

• United States Geological Survey

Libraries Program

• University Library, University of

Illinois Urbana-Champaign

• University of Toronto Libraries

MEMBERS

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BHL reaches a global user community

6.3+MILLIONTOTAL USERS TO DATE

AVERAGE MONTHLY

USERS107,000+

12+ MILLIONTOTAL WEBSITE VISITS TO DATE

AVERAGE MONTHLY

VISITS197,000+

VISITS FROM

243COUNTRIES &

TERRITORIES

*Stats as of June 2017

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A partner in the global biodiversity & digital library communities

BHL collaborates with and contributes

content to a variety of partners…

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“BHL is radically changing the status quo

and democratizing access to knowledge

about biodiversity. Now anyone in the world

has instant access to the original species

description in a couple of clicks.”

Dr. John SullivanEvolutionary BiologistAcademy of Natural Sciences, PhiladelphiaCornell University

AWARDS

• Digital Library Federation (DLF) 2016

Community/Capacity Award (joint

recipient with Archive of American

Broadcasting).

2016

• Internet Archive Hero Award.

Global Leaders in Sharing

Knowledge.

2015

• Laureate. IDG’s Computerworld

Honors Program.

• Charles Robert Long Award of

Extraordinary Merit. Council on

Botanical and Horticultural Libraries.

2013

• Victorian Government Arts Leadership

Recognition Award (BHL Australia).

2012

• John Thackray Medal. The Society

for the History of Natural History.

2011

In Closing ...That was a quick overview of the activities of the Digital Programs & Initiatives Division

Thank you and Questions?

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