Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:07:01 +0000
This is identical to the reply which I received. The links available on the 3 pages listed are limited and I wonder how much more will become available in January.
Roger Bilham
Fenix Metals
fildata wrote:
Dear All,I forward to the list the positive answer from the BL.ciao,Antonio ScutieroFILDATA srl
Lgt. Pietra Papa, 111 - 00146 Roma www.fildata.it
tel +39065560295 fax +39065587921 e-mail info@fildata.itPatent information and searches in Italy and abroadP Save a tree - please do not print this email unless you really need to.Dear Mr Scutiero
Thank you for your email of 12 December concerning the patent, trademark, and designs pages on the British Library website.You are of course correct in pointing out that much of the intellectual property content was removed when the collections and services sections of the website were reworked as the new 'Help for researchers' area of the site, which went live in October.Although the established patent, trade mark, and designs pages were extremely extensive, much of the material had not been subject to wholesale review since it was added to the website some years ago. A gradual accumulation of additional text and links meant that the content had grown well beyond the scope originally envisaged by the intellectual property team and had become almost impossible to maintain.The intellectual property team therefore took the opportunity provided by the development of 'Help for researchers' to carry out a root and branch review of the pages for which they were responsible. Collections pages were in place for the launch of the site, and I hope that you will be pleased to see that some of the links pages have been restored at http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelpsubject/socsci/intprop/tradmk/iptmdatabses/databases.html, http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelpsubject/socsci/intprop/ipdes/ipdesdata/databases.html, andhttp://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelpsubject/socsci/intprop/ippatents/ippatdata/databases.html. More will be added in the near future. We expect the revised patents links page to go online in January 2009.In revising the patent, trademark, and designs material, the intellectual property team are concentrating on creating content that is focused on the Library's collections, highlights the most important resources elsewhere, and can be can be kept fully up to date. The new pages are more selective than the previous set, and will be much easier to use. We will explore community-based approaches for developing and maintaining more exhaustive sets of links.We apologise for any inconvenience caused by the sudden unavailability of the material you clearly value a great deal. We will ensure that we communicate future changes of this kind more effectively. In the meantime we hope that you find the new intellectual property content helpful in the months and years to come.Yours sincerely.Sue AshpitelSue Ashpitel
Manager, Business & IP Collections
The British Library,
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Thank you very much Steve for having shown up this removal of the patent link collection from the British Library website. And thank you very much Mikk for giving the hint of the "waybackmachine". Neverthless I strongly support the reinstatement of the collection and its updating, if possible, and I agree to the suggestion to write to the British Library (even as a non British user!).Ciao,Antonio ScutieroFILDATA srl
Lgt. Pietra Papa, 111 - 00146 Roma - www.fildata.it
tel +39065560295 fax +39065587921 e-mail info@fildata.itP Save a tree - please do not print this email unless you really need to.----- Original Message -----From: MikkSent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 1:23 PMSubject: Re: [PIUG List] Loss of British Library link collectionDear all,
The link collection is still available if to use http://web.archive.org help:
Patent and other links - Part 1 http://web.archive.org/web/20080124023327/www.bl.uk/collections/patents/othlink2.html
Patent and other links - Part 2 http://web.archive.org/web/20070911133606/www.bl.uk/collections/patents/othlink3.html
Patent and other links - Part 3 http://web.archive.org/web/20070826204737/www.bl.uk/collections/patents/othlink4.html
With best regards,
Mikk Putk
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On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 1:50 PM, Stephen Adams <stephen.adams@magister.co.uk> wrote:
Dear colleagues,
I have recently discovered to my horror that the many years of work which Steve van Dulken has devoted to setting up a high quality link collection for patents information has been scrapped. The redesign of the British Library website has removed his listings of searchable patent databases, and the directory of patent offices. Whilst other sources contain some of this information, none adds the helpful text notes which Steve has contributed, with hints and tips on searching and comments on pricing policy.
The disappearance is attributed to a change in BL policy, which limits the amount of work which BL staff can do to provide information "which is also available elsewhere". I feel strongly that this was (is?) a unique collection of genuine value-added data. Ironically, whilst patent information specialists might be able to obtain portions of it from elsewhere, it was perhaps most valuable to less experienced users, who are supposed to be the focus of the BL's promotion of IP information.
I would appeal to you, if you value this collection, to make your views known to the BL management. Write to the Chief Executive (Dame Lynne Brindley) at The British Library, St Pancras, 96 Euston Road, London, NW1 2DB or e-mail to patents-information@bl.uk to register your protest and support for the reinstatement of this material on the website. If the PIUG Board and/or PATMG and other user groups would like to consider a corporate response, I'm sure that would be welcome, too.
Stephen Adams
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