We’re very pleased to say that Electronic Legal Deposit: Shaping the Library Collections of the Future is now out, from Facet Publishing, edited by Paul Gooding and Melissa Terras.

We believe that this is the first book to attempt to draw together an overview of contemporary activities in major organisations and institutions trying to preserve our digital publishing world, which of course includes the world wide web, and how it is archived. We do so from a user perspective, looking at the implications this will have from users of the collections, both now and in the future. And we poke a big stick at the intersection of copyright and legal deposit legislation which often conspire to make user access so limited and tricky to negotiate that end users are presented with a series of obstacles to even get basic access to electronic legal deposit content. You can find a break down of the chapters and contributors here, including those from the National Library of Sweden, Biblioteca Nacional de México, National Archives of Zimbabwe, etc etc!

While the book is not published in open access (and is for sale from all good retailers, including Facet!), we have been able to link to a selection of green open access authors’ accepted versions of chapters.

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