BHL Priority Titles
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BHL Scanning Priorities 2010
The BHL Collections Committee has identified titles of high importance for the fields of Botany and Zoology. The lists provided here have been simplified to show titles and links to BHL. Additional information collected about each title is reflected in Gemini. The Committee is working to identify a tool where these lists can be maintained and informed collectively by BHL staff.
Botany Titles
IPNIpre1923titles.xlsx
Methodology
- Title derived from data compiled by the International Plant Names Index (IPNI).
- Titles containing 100 or more citations to taxonomic descriptions of plants published between 1753-1923 were selected and ranked in order of the number of citations.
- The years provided in the list indicate when the works were cited and do not directly correlate with publication dates.
- Titles identified as being available in BHL or not.
Zoology Titles
See also
Serials Analysis which combines this work of the BHL Collections Committee with analysis of zoological serials by Rod Page
Pre-1923
ZooPre23.xlsx
Through-1923
combined through-23 zoology priority titles.xls
Post-1923
combined post-23 zoology priority titles.xls
Titles have not been reviewed. To be addressed after Pre & Through 1923 titles.
Methodology
List Composition
- Serial titles selected from library catalogs by institution based on:
- for SIL: “QL” in call number or “Zoology” as a subject heading; titles with “Natural History” as a subject heading excluded for now
- for MCZ: “QL” or “QH” in call number (we did include natural history)
- Serial titles divided into 3 lists:
- pre-1923 titles = titles published and ending before 1923
- through 1923 titles = titles published before or in 1923 and continuing beyond
- post 1923 titles = titles published after 1923 and thus in-copyright
- Pre-1923 list titles ranked according to:
- Zoo Record citations
- where a title could be (easily) identified in Index Animalium, cites added to spreadsheet
- Through 1923 titles ranked according to:
- Zoo Record or Journal Citation Report (where available) citations
- Impact Factors
- Those journals listed on Journal Citation Report as the top twenty journals for impact in the field of zoology were also added to this list if they were not already represented.
- Post 1923 titles ranked according to:
- Impact Factors
- Ranked titles from SIL and MCZ deduped and combined into one spreadsheet per time period
The Zoology priority title list is a work in progress. Additional titles to be added from AMNH & Cal Academy catalogs and Index Animalium. Other titles welcome!
Assessment for Pre-1923 Titles
- Titles identified as being available in BHL or not (preceding / succeeding titles considered and assessed)
- Titles with >= 50 citations not available in BHL submitted as Gemini issues
- Titles already digitized by other library projects marked as "minor" priorities
- Titles NOT already digitized marked as "major" priorities
- Titles identified as needing gap-fills for missing volumes (preceding / succeeding titles considered and assessed)
- Volume gaps articulated and submitted as Gemini issues
Titles NOT IN BHL
- Titles searched in OCLC (Connexion)
- Searches always limited by the holdings symbols of the 12 BHL member libraries: N8Q,YAM,IBT,BOH,HMZ,MBW,MOA,VXG,RBG,SMI,CAW,ANS
- Searches returning more than 10 results further limited by Format = “Serials” and Microform = “Not microform”
- Search results investigated for a match and OCLC number(s) recorded
- Holdings examined and recorded for each OCLC no. identified as a match
- If it was discovered that a digital manifestation record existed for the title, the URL for the digitized work was recorded
- Works available in Google Books were ignored
- Titles searched in scanlist and additional library holdings recorded if any were not already captured via the OCLC search (10/12 BHL library catalogs in Scanlist: AMNH, Field, HAR (MCZ + HUH), KEW, MBL, MOBOT, NHM, NYBG, SIL, and IA)
- Scanlist records deduped and recorded; sometimes multiple scanlist records needed to be recorded for a single title based on the way the title was cataloged at a particular institution (lumpers vs. splitters issue)
