Biodiversity Heritage Library&

JSTOR Plant Science

Chris FreelandTechnical Director, Biodiversity Heritage Library

Director, Center for Biodiversity Informatics,Missouri Botanical Garden

Stats: To Date

• 45,000 journals & monographs– 8,821 in 2010

• 87,000 volumes– 15,552 in 2010

• 32 million pages– 5.6 million in 2010

Usage: 2010

• 837,000 visits• 422,000 unique visitors• 4.2 millions pageviews

Recent Developments

• Scanning request form

Click on “Feedback”at top of BHL siteor visithttp://biodiversitylibrary.org/Feedback.aspx

Recent Developments

• New user interface for names index

Coming soon

• Enhancements to home page– More focus on search

• Special collections– Charles Darwin’s personal library

• Scholarly annotations– Annotations in Darwin’s hand &

academic interpretation, crosslinking

Outreach via social media

• No budget for print media, so like JSTOR go with “free” channels

http://biodiversitylibrary.blogspot.com

http://www.flickr.com/groups/bhl/

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2413693109

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Biodiversity-Heritage-Library/63547246565

http://twitter.com/BioDivLibrary#BHLib

Global BHL

Global data sharing requiresa social infrastructure

Benefits of Global BHL partnerships

• Redundancy & resilience– Data & App Mirroring

• Unique content

• New tools & services

• Opportunities for collaborations– IMPACT, ViBRANT, OpenUp! in EU

Data Sharing: BHL & JSTOR

CiteBank: http://citebank.org

• New search index to BHL content

• Platform for journals/publishers/societies in need of tools to store & share their content

• Access to “crowdsourced” articles from BHL scans

BHL + Citebank

• Content & tools for scholarly crowdsourcing– Users can get content they need, do

minor work, share results with community

• More content for integration with other platforms– JSTOR Plant Science, EOL, Atlas of Living

Australia – Mendeley, Zotero, RefWorks

DOIs

• BHL member of CrossRef through Smithsonian

• Will start assigning DOIs to BHL monographs– Easy, non-controversial

• Then move on to articles / other publication types– CrossRef rules make full assignment

challenging for crowdsourced articles

Wishlist: 2011 & beyond

• OCR Correction– Big problem with no easy solution

• More Content– Partnerships, CiteBank

• More Outreach– Conferences, marketing, Facebook & social

media

• Sustainability planning & funding– Committed to no fees for users

Email: chris.freeland@mobot.org

Twitter: @chrisfreeland

Blog / info: chrisfreeland.com

Flickr: http://flickr.com/photos/chrisfreeland/

Thank You!

Chris FreelandDirector, Center for Biodiversity Informatics

Missouri Botanical Garden