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UKPMC ‘We exist for everyone who wants to do research – for academic, personal, or commercial purposes.’ - BL Strategy 2005/8

3 ‘This is the life blood of research and innovation’ 3 main funding streams: DCMS grant-in-aid (£89m) Annual trading income (£25m) Donations (£4m) Generates value to the UK economy each year of 4.4 times public funding Helping people advance knowledge to enrich lives National library of the UK. Serves researchers, business, libraries, education & the general public Collection includes over 2m sound recordings, 5m reports, theses and conference papers, the world’s largest patents collection (c.50m) The largest document supply service in the world. Secure e-delivery and ‘just in time’ digitisation enables desktop delivery within 2 hours. 1.4m articles delivered in 2005/6 (80% STM) Over 250 years of collecting. Beneficiary of legal deposit, and £15m annual acquisitions budget 3 main sites in London and Yorkshire. 2,250 staff Collection fills over 600km of shelving and grows at 11km per year 1.25 Tb of digital material through voluntary deposit Science and Innovation Investment Framework , H.M. Treasury (2004) Information infrastructure 2.23 The growing UK research base must have ready and efficient access to information of all kinds – such as experimental data sets, journals, theses, conference proceedings and patents. This is the life blood of research and innovation.

4 UKPMC Project Based on PubMed Central (PMC) – the US National Institute of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature Provides a stable, permanent and free-to-access online digital archive of full-text, peer-reviewed research publications. Driven by deposit mandates and recommendations from the funders Launched in January 2007 Mirroring the PMC database Implementing a manuscript submission system - UKMSS - to enable UK scientists to submit their research papers for inclusion in UKPMC.

5 UKPMC – The Partnership Information Services Core Biology Data Biomedical and Bioinformatics Research Document Management and Publishing Text Mining and Data Linking Document Storage and Access Resource Discovery University of Manchester Hosts the service Builds ‘small-scale’ developments Engages the HE community Shapes future R&D The British Library Takes prime contractor role Manages the grantee database Marks up author submissions Creates the marketing collateral Promotes to the broader user community Provides long-term preservation European Bioinformatics Institute Creates the links to the data Integrates it with other repositories Develops the discovery interface

6 UKPMC - Building on the Team’s experience & expertise UKPMC is a natural fit with current business of the team members The British Library Builds on existing information services and relationships with the scientific community including NLM (2,000,000 STM Articles Delivered In 2005). Benefits from 10 years of expertise in the ingest, storage and preservation of e-journals The University of Manchester Gains from the University’s reputation as the major academic centre for bioinformatics (5 & 5* Ratings in RAE 2001) Capitalises on MIMAS’ role as a national data centre hosting and supporting a complex blend of services for the scientific community (e.g. CrossFire and ISI Web of Knowledge) The European Bioinformatics Institute Builds on the informatics services provided to the biomedical community over the past 20 years including the biology datasets hosted at EBI Exploits existing literature-data links and services based on text mining technologies and the close relationship with NCBI

7 Enhanced linking (EBI + other datasets) Preservation Grant reporting tool II Phase 3 Full text searching Integration with repositories UKPMC build Small-scale developments QA Ingest Marketing Grant reporting tool I Phase 2 Implement mirror Phase 1 January

8 Current Status Manchester Purchased IT infrastructure to support UKPMC, includes: Repository for NLM DTD formatted papers (800,000 – 2 TBytes) Submission system (NIHMS) Testing functionality in ‘standalone’ IT environment (outside NCBI) British Library Hired Marketing professional and creating marketing plan Selected 3 rd party vendor for NLM DTD mark up and created QA process Built grants database from funding organisations Set up help desk for authors EBI Defining strategy for future development of UKPMC Initial Go Live = 8 January 2007

9 Early Use of UKPMC

10 Integrated with community interfaces Enhanced content BL catalogue Accessed via bibliographic data Publisher sites Local ‘MEDLINE plus’ ETOC Discovery interfaces (e.g. Intute) Advanced text/data mining & visualisation Social publishing forums & new metrics for authors/funders e-science workbenches Data supporting interdisciplinary research UKPMC – embedding in the European bioscience environment UKPMC

11 The Vision Placing UKPMC at the centre of UK bioscience research Creating a ‘European PubMed’ – an entry point to data and text tailored to the European domain Expanding the content available by providing links to the British Library’s extensive back-catalogue and negotiating UKPMC deposition with publishers Supplementing the EBI datasets by linking to the UKPMC research archive Linking documents to scientific data to support the interdisciplinary nature of research

12 The Vision Embedding the service within the research environment – e- Framework, e-science and Intute Extending knowledge through the mining and visualising of data, using tools being developed at EBI and Manchester Providing new metrics for authors and funders to help assess the quality of research Supporting ‘social publishing’, novel peer-review mechanisms and innovative publication discussion forums Ensuring the permanence of UKPMC by preserving its content in the British Library’s Digital Object Management preservation store

13 Summary Placing UKPMC at the centre of bioscience research Builds on the existing strengths and synergy of the partners Community Delivery Preservation Provides a platform for the development of new services to the UK and European biomedical research communities Gives us an opportunity to explore new avenues of scholarly communication and ways of managing the outputs of research