The Science, Technology and Medicine team at the British Library are piloting our new ‘Search Our Catalogue’ tool as a way to help researchers discover datasets. Search Our Catalogue (SoC) brings together the wealth of the Library’s content into a single search. To explore researcher needs for finding research datasets, we are enabling the discovery and display of information about them in SoC. This is one of our first experiments with signposting users to content not held by us but accessed elsewhere on the internet.
For this pilot, we have selected a trial collection of datasets on the theme of environmental change, specifically:
- observations of climate, weather, the atmosphere and oceans
- air quality and emissions into the atmosphere
- renewable energy
As we are in the early stages of developing this service, we would value your thoughts to help us improve it. Please visit the science web page http://www.bl.uk/science and follow the link to find out more. We would encourage you to visit http://searchbeta.bl.uk to see what you can find.
Please email your comments and questions to us at science@bl.uk.
Many thanks,
Rachael Kotarski
Content Specialist – Datasets, Science, Technology and Medicine
The British Library, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB
