Author: Seadle, Michael

Source: Library Hi Tech, Volume 19, Number 3, 2001 , pp. 299-303(5)

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Abstract:

Legal deposit is the requirement that particular types of material be deposited with a national library or designated research libraries. US law does not at present include any requirement for the deposit of works that exist solely in the form of Web pages. For digital materials, it makes no sense to write rules for legal deposit based on the medium. Nations and national libraries that ignore legal deposit for digital works will find themselves missing a significant and unrecoverable portion of their cultural heritage.

Keywords: Copyright; Publishing

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/EUM0000000005893

Publication date: 2001-09-01

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