British Library Content and Services for Business and

British Library Content and Services for Business and Management research Michelangelo Staffolani & Sally Halper Curators – Business & Management, Social Sciences, The British Library

The British Library • The British Library is the UK’s national library and one of the world’s greatest research libraries. • Our collections contain over 157 million items across all subjects. • We are open to everyone who wants to do research – in person in our Reading Rooms, and online via the Management & Business Studies Portal www. mbsportal. bl. uk • How to get a Reader Pass www. bl. uk/reshelp/inrrooms/stp/register/stpregister. html www. bl. uk 2

A bit about you… 1. Your name, position, institution and your research interests? 2. Do you already use the British Library at all? e. g. interlibrary loan 3. Which (other) libraries or information sources do you use? 4. What information do you find hard to access? (if any) 5. What would you like to get out of today’s presentation? Note: We’ll ask you for your views again at the end of our talk. There’s also a practical exercise later where we’ll discuss your research, and how the Library can be used to support them. There will also be an opportunity to ask any questions. www. bl. uk 3

Structure of presentation today 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. What have we got and how is it changing? What do we mean by ‘an area of focus’? The MBS Portal website What else do we do? What’s new Practical exercise Q & A www. bl. uk 4

1. What have we got …for Business and management research? 1. Legal Deposit and NPLD: Books: c 2 million for MBS and growing Journals: c 37, 000 titles currently received plus e-journal databases Statistics: More and more digital sources, UK, European and international ‘Grey lit’ = research reports etc from government, thinktanks etc UK Domain websites Market research, Country and Industry reports, Trade press, IP 2. Databases: See stripey sheet, plus all the big ones like Web of Science, JSTOR etc 3. News media: TV, Radio and newspapers 4. The MBS Portal website 5. Unique content: We have collections such as annual reports, directories and trade literature that contain unique content. Sound recordings. www. bl. uk 5

How is it changing? British Library Content Strategy to 2016 More and more Digital Content – mainly via Non Print Legal Deposit remains core of our collections But shrinking and limited resources (both money and staff), we have to make choices about where to focus our money and efforts, beyond what we get on Legal Deposit (digital as well as print since April) Aim = excellent collections We have identified 3 potential areas of focus up to 31 March 2016: • Innovation & Entrepreneurship – policy driver, demand service. • Management & Leadership – supports impact agenda and practitioner audience. • Management and Business History – provide support for research community www. bl. uk 6

2. What do we mean by area of focus? • Content development BEYOND what we get on Legal Deposit (print and digital). For example: for Management & Business History we have collections such as annual reports, directories and trade literature. Add more rights-cleared content to MBS Portal (free and via deals with publishers). • More engagement with the research community for that area, and with practitioners. • We want to hear from researchers about how they use different types of content and what the British Library can do to help them access it. www. bl. uk 7

3. Management & Business Studies Portal • A British Library website for Management & Business Studies bringing together our vast print and digital collections. • Contains downloadable full text research reports, working papers, articles from high-quality publishers of management research. Market research from Keynote + others soon • Can be tailored to suit your interests and can alert you to new content (digital and books, journals) that match your subject interests www. bl. uk 8

Benefits • 24 -7 access: to full text, high quality digital content – for free • Find more relevant material: we give access to hard to find research reports or material which can be hidden behind membership barriers • Save time: Find print and digital formats in one ‘hit’ from your own desk, then choose the delivery route that suits you. Includes BL Document Supply Services. • Dissemination: Management researchers can log their research papers with us getting it in front of over 86, 000 professional managers – helps to get it used and show impact. Email social-sciences-digital@bl. uk • User led: User panels will help develop the site so that the MBS Portal will always represent their needs www. bl. uk 9

Our users 3, 000 circa registered users since launch in October 2010. (270 CMI members, 120 BAM, 65 are researchers funded by ESRC) 6, 000 visitors last month: 12, 000 page views that month User profile: Professional managers 25% Researchers in HE = 24%: students (14%) lecturers (11. 5%) Entrepreneurs (11%) Librarians/information specialists (8%) User satisfaction: 70% rate the Portal excellent or very good; 60% would definitely recommend. www. bl. uk 10

4. What else do we do? • Partnership with Chartered Management Institute (CMI): the main professional body for management in the UK, with 86, 000 members • Management Book of the Year • Management Articles initiative – see next slide www. bl. uk 11

Management Articles initiative • Joint initiative by CMI, BAM, British Library, ABS, and AMBA. • Sponsored by Wiley • £ 1, 000 prize to author of highest rated article. 2013 is third year. • CMI’s members rate the articles and contribute short supplementary comments. • An online knowledge transfer ‘market place’ to enable academics in UK business schools to share their most accessible and relevant research for rating by 86, 000 practitioners. • A collection of the top rated research articles from UK business schools assessed for relevance and clarity of writing by practitioners. www. bl. uk 12

David Willetts likes it “ Management Articles of the Year gives managers the opportunity to stay up to date with the latest and best thinking from British Business Schools. Opening up research and data to a wider audience can help to foster innovation, drive growth and create new areas of academic discovery. ” The Rt. Hon. David Willetts MP Minister of State for Universities and Science www. bl. uk 13

5. What’s new? • RAE 2008 research outputs: All c. 12, 000 being rightscleared and added to the MBS Portal throughout 2014 • Emerald Journals: 6 titles initially, in full text Journal of Management History Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development Social Enterprise Journal International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour & Research European Journal of Innovation Management Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy Coming soon: Oral History ‘Pioneers of Qualitative Methods’ http: //www. esds. ac. uk/qualidata/pioneers/ New Oral Histories of Business & Industry… www. bl. uk 14

6. Practical exercise 1. Get into small groups and introduce yourselves briefly. 2. Choose one of your research projects to talk about. 3. Discuss how you would use the British Library to help with your research: - What would you do? - What content would you use? - Which services? Michelangelo & Sally will circulate and answer questions 4. Repeat for another project www. bl. uk 15

Your views and Q & A • Having heard our talk: Were you surprised by anything we said or did you learn anything new? • Do you think you’re more likely to use the British Library now? And the MBS Portal? • In practical terms, is there anything else you would like the Library to do, to better support you in your research? • Any questions from you? www. bl. uk 16

Thank you Please contact us with your thoughts and suggestions: Sally Halper & Michelangelo Staffolani Social Sciences The British Library 96 Euston Road London NW 1 2 DB Email: mbseditor@bl. uk Contribute content to the MBS Portal: social-sciences-digital@bl. uk www. bl. uk 17