Digital Programs & Initiatives @ Smithsonian Libraries: Scholarly Communications | Digital Library | Biodiversity Heritage Library. Martin R. Kalfatovic. Presentation for the National Library of Medicine Staff. Smithsonian Libraries. Washington, DC. 9 June 2017

1. Digital Programs & Initiatives @
Smithsonian Libraries
Scholarly Communications | Digital Library | Biodiversity
Heritage Library
Martin R. Kalfatovic
Associate Director | BHL Program Director
National Library of Medicine visit to Smithsonian Libraries
29 June 2017 | Washington, DC

2. Anacostia Community Museum Library
National Air and Space Museum Library
National Museum of African American History & Culture Library
National Museum of American History Library
National Postal Museum Library
Smithsonian Institution Libraries Research Annex
The Vine Deloria, Jr. Library, National Museum of the American Indian
History and Culture
Smithsonian American Art / Portrait Gallery Library
Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Library
Freer and Sackler Galleries Library
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Library
Warren M. Robbins Library, National Museum of African Art
Art and Design
Botany and Horticulture Library
John Wesley Powell Library of Anthropology
Museum Support Center Library
National Museum of Natural History Library
National Zoological Park Library
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center Library
Earl Tupper Library, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Sciences
Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology
Joseph F. Cullman 3rd Library of Natural History
Special Collections
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Smithsonian Libraries

3. Scholarly
Communications

4. SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING
EXPONENTIAL 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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5. SMITHSONIAN SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING
WHAT WE HAVE IN RESEARCH ONLINE
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0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
Thousands
Growth of annual number of publications by Smithsonian authors in Research Online (from 1843-2016)
OVER 80K PUBLICATIONS SINCE 1843

6. SMITHSONIAN RESEARCH ONLINE
RESEARCH.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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8. 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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9. 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

10. 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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11. 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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12. Research
Areas
InCites
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13. Research
Areas
InCites
(excluding
Smithsonian
Astrophysical
Observatory)
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14. Capturing Scholarly Communications:
Workflow, Bibliometrics, & Altmetrics

15. 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

17. Bibliometrics in Service of ..

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Staff Pages
data reuse

19. BIBLIOMETRICS AT THE SMITHSONIAN
REPORTING EXAMPLES
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CITATION ANALYSIS, PRODUCTIVITY, CLARIVATE INCITES, ALTMETRICS
Impact of Evolution of Terrestrial Ecosystems

20. ALTMETRIC SOURCES
WHAT 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 Citations
Wikipedia
YouTube
Reddit
F1000
Q&A
Post-publication
peer review
Publons
Pubpeer
Policy documents
• NICE Evidence
• Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate
Change
• & Many more…

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Top Altmetric-
scoring Publications
Altmetric Explorer
(spring 2017)

22. Profiles:
Bringing it all Together?

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Smithsonian
Profiles
An expertise
locator using the
VIVO software

24. 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 book
digitization
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 Tokaido
gojusantsugi (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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Some
non-book
digitization
projects
Thérèse
Bonney
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, designer
Auto radiator cap. France, 1925-30 Cosmetics display.
France, circa 1925

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Some
non-book
digitization
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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Some
non-book
digitization
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.

39. Biodiversity
Heritage 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 access
to 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
18AFFILIATES
60+ 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+MILLION
TOTAL USERS TO DATE
AVERAGE MONTHLY
USERS107,000+
12+ MILLION
TOTAL 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 Sullivan
Evolutionary Biologist
Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
Cornell 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

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

50. Thank you and
Questions?
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