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Rachel Playforth
Repository Coordinator
9 July 2013
SCOLMA Annual Conference
Unhiding African collections at the British Library for
Development Studies
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Our collection
National resource for development studies
Largest research collection on economic and social development in Europe
Over 200,000 titles, 1 million physical items
60% published in developing countries
High proportion of unique holdings
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Cataloguing figures
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Unhiding 1: retrospective conversion
Pre-1988 government publications from Southern countries23000 online records createdComplete holdings of Anglophone African government publications now on OPAC25% of all card recordsResource-intensive!Illustration by Adam Rex from Chu’s Day by Neil Gaimon
http://www.meanboyfriend.com/overdue_books/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/20130508-211850.jpg
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Unhiding 2: article indexing
175 journals indexed in OPACMostly published in the SouthDetailed subject headings applied at article levelAbstracts where possible
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Unhiding 3: digitisation
Series papers from Southern research institutesTo be hosted at BLDS in a digital libraryDigitised material also returned to the original instituteRationale: inherent value + pragmatism
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Staffing and workflow
Kept in-house (Project Assistants worked on every stage)
Physical and online cross-checking
Permission seeking (project manager)
Scanning & OCR
Uploading to repository
OPAC record creation
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Permissions and licensing
Balance of openness with IP protection
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial- NoDerivatives license chosen
• 14 permissions received, 5 refusals. (And lots of non-responders and incomplete negotiations...)
Reasons for not getting permission:
1. couldn’t locate contact or couldn’t get a response
2. concerns over loss of revenue
3. publications already digitised or going to be
Ask a librarian!
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Populating the Digital Library
First agreement from University of Nairobi – June 2010
Added over 700 of their publications from our holdings
Official launch - September 2011
By June 2013 had 13 more organisations on board
1900+ full-text papers
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The BLDS Digital Library
http://blds.ids.ac.uk/digital-library
DSpace open source software
Searchable and browsable
Community/ collection structure
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OPAC integration
Don’t scan and dump!
Bibliographic record links to full text and vice versa
Multiplies access points
Continues retrospective cataloguing work
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A virtuous circle
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Measuring impact 1: the numbers
Around 3000 downloads per month
Around 1500 unique site visitors per month... based in over 100 different countries
75% come via search engines
An invisible repository is a successful repository?
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Measuring impact 2: demand
From supply to demand
Joining up with enquiry and document delivery services
‘On demand’ digitisation of IDS publications
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Measuring impact 3: the international picture
African capacity, African repositories
National-level in Ethiopia and Malawi
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Next steps
DFID funding for the Global Open Knowledge Hub
Digital Library continuing to grow
In-country digitisation
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Thank you
http://blds.ids.ac.uk
http://blds.ids.ac.uk/digital-library
@blds_library @archelina
And thanks to Henry Rowsell and Helen Rehin
for their contributions to this paper.