# Presentation: 028994

## The NRL Research LibraryOnline Bibliography Project

- R. James King
- James.King@nrl.navy.mil
- Ruth H. Hooker Research Library
- U.S. Naval Research Laboratory

- The NRL Research LibraryOnline Bibliography Project

**Notes:**
I’m honored to be here today.  In the time I have, I will describe NRL, the NRL Research Library, and our use of scholarly information.

## Main Campus - Washington, D.C.
	131-acre Campus	111 Buildings
Subject Focus
	Physics, Chemistry, Electronics, Oceanography, Meteorology, Space Sciences
Remote Campuses
	Stennis, MS; Monterey, CA; and Office of Naval Research

- 	131-acre Campus	111 Buildings
**Subject Focus**
- 	Physics, Chemistry, Electronics, Oceanography, Meteorology, Space Sciences
**Remote Campuses**
- 	Stennis, MS; Monterey, CA; and Office of Naval Research

- The Navy and Marine Corps’Corporate Research Facility

**Notes:**
NRL is the corporate research lab for NRL/ONR – Industrially funded (meaning that we’re not part of the Federal budget and operate more like a university)

NRL’s mission is to focus on the Navy After Next and prevent surprise on battlefield and ensure overwhelming dominance.  Have invented radar, GPS and first spy satellite.

We are a major portion of the Office of Naval Research, which ultimately reports to the Secretary of the Navy rather than the Chief of Naval operations to ensure that we retain a ‘long view’ focus.  In addition to the main campus in Washington, D.C., there are major detachments in Stennis Space Center in Mississippi and Monterey, California.

## NRL Research LibraryStrategic Plan

**VISION: ***“Your Partner in Research”*
**MISSION:**** **The Ruth H. Hooker Research Library exists to enhance & support NRL scientists in accomplishing their research objectives across a range of ongoing Navy and DoD programs through a mix of information services.
**GOALS:**
- Providing access to all published information
- Building the NRL Digital Library
- Capturing the NRL research portfolio

**Notes:**
The NRL Research Library was created in 1927 – 80th anniversary next year!  Innovation and technology has always been a part of the NRL Research Library’s culture.  We used punch cards in the mid-60’s to manage our journal holdings and circulation records, started digitization in the late 80’s, and created a digital desktop service in 1991, long before the Web. 

Have a new strategic plan to drive innovation, re-engineer processes and ensure customer focus.

I’ve reorganized the NRL Research Library into three ‘units’ with each one focused on fulfilling one of the three strategic goals.

## Major Collections

**Journals:**
- Print journals (1800-present, 1,682 titles)
- Online journals (1683-present, 2,574 titles)
- TORPEDO *Ultra* (1826-present, 3,190 titles)
**Books:**
- Books/Proceedings – 46,000 print titles w/~15k proceedings
- RFIDs on entire book/reference collection

**Notes:**
Journals
99% of current journals online, 50% of entire journal collection online
The heaviest used and largest part of the library
‘Death of Microfilm’
Books and Conference Proceedings
Expect/hope all proceedings of value to be online in next decade

## Major Collections - 2

**Reference Tools:**
- 3k print *(Who’s Who, encyclopedia, handbooks, citation indexes, Chemical Abstracts, etc.)*
- 3k online including INSPEC, Web of Science, SciFinder, Scopus
**Research Reports:**
- Print (unclassified and classified) – 600,000 reports
- Digitized (SIPRnet) – 200,000 reports
- Microfilm – 1.5M reports

**Notes:**
Reference
Purchasing a few print titles, based upon need and costs
Trying to move most reference online and have them interlinked into content

Research Reports
Print collection was built during and after World War II - the library’s digitization efforts from 1989-1997 focused on scanning the 200,000 (10M pages) unclassified reports held in the collection, continues to be one of the largest collections of online reports in government.  
This used to be the primary and official output of research, now needs to be expand to cover other types as part of a ‘research portfolio management’ effort.

## TORPEDO Ultra Digital Archive

- 3,100+ journals from   17 publishers
- 6,000 tech reports
- 7.5M+ articles locally loaded
- Full content search across all content
- Integrated citation linking
- Convera RetrievalWare Concept Searching

**Notes:**
TORPEDO Ultra is our locally-hosted digital archive that has been expanded since 1994 when it was built as a research project to see if scientists would accept desktop delivery of journal articles.

This provides NRL with the assurance of permanency since the actual content is kept under local control.  It also aggregates all loaded content under one interface, provides more advanced searching than available elsewhere, and is a step towards true digital preservation.

The NRL Library obtains content for TORPEDO in three ways: digitizing agency content, licensing publisher content, and digitizing publisher content. Digitizing agency content is the easiest to start with since content created by government agencies is in the public domain, eliminating copyright concerns.  Licensing and/or publisher content is more complicated since it requires negotiations with the copyright holders – publishers.  This has been done with many of the scientific publishers and societies that we’re most interested in.

## Capturing corporate knowledge

**Notes:**
After WWII, most critical government research was captured in research reports and distributed through places like DTIC and NTIS.  Now, an increasing portion of government-produced or sponsored research information is published in other formats including databases, MS Word files, PowerPoint slides, etc. that must be retained but the volume negates using traditional library manual cataloging processes. Deanna Marcum, Assoc. Librarian of Congress recently questioned the future of established cataloging.  Trend with IR has been to create a new ‘silo’ of unpublished information rather than folding into a continuum of scholarly information - a ‘formalization of the informal’.  

The NRL Research Library’s goal is to: 
capture the ‘intellectual output’ of NRL from beginning (1923)
Capturing already published info – no author intervention required + historical info
Capture all NRL publication formats: journal articles, conference proceedings, book chapters, patents, & technical reports
Need to change the ‘chop chain’ to capture thru required processes
Providing easy web tool for reviews & promotions (annual summary)
Bragging rights of Top 25 most cited publications
Expertise list by reviewing pubs and citation counts – can search keywords or TORPEDO
Creating compendium of pubs for retiring scientists before leaving
Virtual journal of Naval research

Making system indispensable for scientists & administrators – ensuring that a portion of the corporate memory is retained for the future.