Dr. Abel Packer's presentation (uploaded under his consent) to the First Technical Global BHL Meeting in Woods Hole, Mass. from Sept.22 to Sept.24., 2010

1. BHL Brazil [and LA&C] via SciELO BHL Network Abel L. Packer Advisor on Information and Communication in Science SciELO – Scientific Electronic Library Online Foundation of the Federal University of São Paulo Technical support: Fabiana Montanari, SciELO Supervisor, FapUNIFESP Luis Gomes, SciELO Administrator, FapUNIFESP Fabio Batalha, SciELO Supervisor, FapUNIFESP Marcia Y. Barreto, Infrastructure of Information Technology, BIREME/PAHO/WHO Hussam Zaher, Director, Museum of Zoology, University of São Paulo Institutional support Ministry of the Environment, FAPESP, FapUNIFESP, BIREME/PAHO/WHO

2. 1 Background and motivation to participate in BHL preservation of biodiversity – sustainable development taxonomic impediment enrich the biodiversity information space with an online open access library of biodiversity related literature, draws, maps, … SciELO Network of National and Thematic Collection of quality journals - 18 collections, 16 nationals, 8 certified, about 650 titles, 270k articles, >12 mi downloads per month BHL as international reference – methodology, technology, insertion in the international flow, network rationality Ministry of the Environment – Probio II Program – World Bank

3. 2 Overview of BHL Brazil – BHL-SciELO network based --- open access - public good collective construction – shared leadership based on SciELO, VHL and BHL experience political and institutional support from Federal Government and the State of São Paulo government community, institutional and operational support from research community, libraries, scientific editors, … coordination through committees networked operation based on commons

4. 2 Overview of BHL Brazil – BHL-SciELO Library Network – current members 1. Biblioteca Nacional 2. Fundação Oswaldo Cruz 3. Instituto de Botânica do Estado de São Paulo 4. Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro 5. Ministério do Meio Ambiente 6. Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro 7. Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi 8. Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo 9. Universidade Federal do Paraná 10. Universidade de São Paulo

5. 2 Overview of BHL Brazil – BHL-SciELO Advisory Committee Ministry of Environment – Secretary of Biodiversity and Forests State of São Paulo Research Foundation – Biota Research Program on Biodiversity Representative of the Librarians Technical Group Representative of the Systems Developers Technical Group National Library Museum of Zoology of the University of São Paulo SciELO, as Coordinator of the Committee

7. 3 Technical work already completed or planned Procedures and criteria for the selection of contents from the network libraries to be digitized locally or centralized System/Web site for the Advisory Committee session to select contents Referential bibliographic data base to control books to be digitized SciELO – BHL Portal development using free and open VHL technology to be compatible with BHL Portal Metadata exchange enabled thru webservices protocols like OAI iAHx search engine - Lucene based search engine from VHL SciELO-BHL Portal to be fully operational by the end of the year Acquisition of digitizing services and scanners formulated and in process Formalization of the network governance to be established in 2010/2011

8. 4 Digitized content already available and planned SciELO Journal Collection – about 25 journals publish current biodiversity related research. Contents already digitized – about 200 books, 4000 documents, mainly from Biblioteca Nacional From BHL to be searched / identified To be digitalized until end of 2010 – about 60 Accumulated total volumes to be digitalized by owned scanners end of 2011 - 500 end of 2012 - 1300 end of 2013 - 2100

9. 5 Human and other resources available Scientific level : State of São Paulo Research Foundation – Biota – Biodiversity Research Program, University of São Paulo Museum of Zoology, SciELO Special Program Administrative, technical and operational level : SciELO Special Program, Federal University of São Paulo Foundation - operational and scientific coordination, operational supervision and process - deal with contractors/commercial providers - technological partners – FOSS instances, BIREME, BHL, … International cooperation: Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences – BIREME/PAHO/WHO BHL envisaging PNUD Political and managerial level : Ministry of Environment, State of São Paulo Research Foundation, University of São Paulo Museum of Zoology, Federal University of São Paulo Foundation

10. 6 Funding and Drivers / criteria for success of funding organizations Ministry of Environment is funding the development of the Collection of Essential Works on Biodiversity, including selection, digitization infrastructure and operation, publication and interoperability. US$ 1 million FAPESP is funding the development of the collection open access journals and articles repository, multilingual thesaurus, online cooperative space and interoperability. US$ 400,000.00 Expected Results: visibility, accessibility, use and impact SciELO-BHL to become reference for the publication, indexing and accessing to biodiversity related relevant contents

11. 7 Integration with other efforts SciELO Network – fully integrarion VHL - Virtual Health Library Network Biota - FAPESP Biota Research Program CRIA – Reference Center on Environmental Information Ministry of Environment – national environment information system – Probio II BHL Network- fully integration Cooperation envisaged with UNDP initiatives

12. 8 Dates of major milestone & deliverables 2010 - February Kick-off. Workshop Essential Rare Works Collection in Biodiversity: governance, operation and digitization  in cooperation with BHL 2011 - March Scanners acquisition and Scanning Unit operating regularly 2010 - October Meeting of the SciELO-BHL Advisory Committee to validate the selection criteria and select the 200 first journal/bulletins titles and books 2010 – December Launching of the SciELO-BHL Portal with a minimum of 100 digitized books Formalization of the network governance 2013 – July Minimum of 2000 books digitized online and interoperable with the BHL 2006 – March Cop-8 - SciELO Biodiversity launched. Projects formulation, approval – 2006-2008

13. 9 Regional expansion requirements SciELO – BHL Network to progressively expand to Latin America & Caribbean countries from 2011 on Political support – institutional and financial sustainability Involvement of the related communities: - researchers - librarians and IT professionals - journal editors Multilingualism – thesaurus is a critical tool/infrastructure Combining regional and national scanning operation BHL Regional forum

14. 10 Conclusions on SciELO-BHL development slow and lengthy but sustainable process Political support – aligned with national policies --- critical to get institutional and financial support Based on existing national and international successful experiences: VHL, SciELO and BHL Scientific support – aligned with research programs --- critical to get research community support Network rationality, open access, public good. Committed to BHL network

15. Thank you