BGS Publications Database

The BGS Publications Database contains metadata relating to documents created by the British Geological Survey (BGS). These documents include published works (commercially published, formally printed, listed for sale and available for general distribution to the public), as well as informally published technical reports and current report RR, OR, CR and IR series. The database contains documents which are released for general distribution, as well as confidential documents and documents which are available only to BGS staff. The database contains series of publications which have been used throughout the existence of the Geological Survey, including sheet memoirs, district memoirs, summaries of work and regional geological guides which date from the beginning of Geological Survey activity in the early 19th century to the present day. The database also contains RR (research), OR (open), CR (commissioned) and IR (internal) reports from the current BGS report series, as well as a large (over 25 000) number of technical reports created by various units within BGS from the 1940s through to the year 2000. Basic metadata about a publication are held, including its unique ID, reference number, year of publication, full title, author(s), series and publisher. Many publications are held in digital formats, either as scans of hard-copy documents or as born-digital files. Publications stored within the database are available to view, but are not available for download. Non-confidential technical reports are available to download in PDF format. The database can be browsed and reports accessed through the BGS Publications Viewer: https://webapps.bgs.ac.uk/data/publications/. The current series of open reports from BGS are available on the NERC Open Research Archive (NORA): https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/.

Date (Creation): 1839

Citation identifier: http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608599

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	enquiries@bgs.ac.uk	Distributor
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	enquiries@bgs.ac.uk	Owner
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	enquiries@bgs.ac.uk	Point of contact

Maintenance and update frequency: As needed

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Geology

BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences

History of geology
Surveying
Reports
Science history
data.gov.uk (non-INSPIRE)
Geological surveys

dataCentre

data.gov.uk (non-INSPIRE)

Keywords

NERC_DDC

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: no limitations

Other constraints: restricted

Other constraints: The dataset has been formally approved by BGS for access by external clients under a BGS Digital Data Licence, issued via BGS's IPR Section. The dataset must not be provided to, or be accessible by, an external client until the IPR Section confirms that signed licence documentation is in place. Refer to the IPR Section (DigitalLE@bgs.ac.) if further advice is required.

Other constraints: The dataset is made freely available for access, e.g. via the Internet. Either no third party data / information is contained in the dataset or BGS has secured written permission from the owner(s) of any third party data / information contained in the dataset to make the dataset freely accessible.

Use constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: The copyright of materials derived from the British Geological Survey's work is vested in the Natural Environment Research Council [NERC]. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the prior permission of the copyright holder, via the BGS Intellectual Property Rights Manager. Use by customers of information provided by the BGS, is at the customer's own risk. In view of the disparate sources of information at BGS's disposal, including such material donated to BGS, that BGS accepts in good faith as being accurate, the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the quality or accuracy of the information supplied, or to the information's suitability for any use. NERC/BGS accepts no liability whatever in respect of loss, damage, injury or other occurence however caused.

Other constraints: Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]"

Language: English

Topic category

Geoscientific information

Begin date: 1839

Reference System Information

No information provided.

Distribution format

Name	Version

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	enquiries@bgs.ac.uk	Distributor

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://webapps.bgs.ac.uk/data/publications/	BGS Publications Viewer

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/	NORA – NERC Open Research Archive

Hierarchy level: Non geographic dataset

Other: non geographic dataset

Conformance result

Title: INSPIRE Implementing rules laying down technical arrangements for the interoperability and harmonisation of Geology

Date (Publication): 2011

Explanation: See the referenced specification

Pass: No

Conformance result

Title: Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Explanation: See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF

Pass: No

Statement: These metadata were originally compiled from earlier hard-copy lists of publications to form a series of databases. The Publications Database is an aggregate dataset formed through the standardisation and merging of these various pre-existing databases. BGS publications have been scanned at various points in time. The technical reports archive was scanned in 2007, with some additional batches added since. New data are added to the database in born-digital formats. The database is also periodically updated when new scans or hard-copy records are added and restricted reports are made open.