1. Legal Deposit & UK Publishing
Andrew Davis
Publisher Relations, The British Library

2. What has self-publishing to do with the British Library…?

3. The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom and one of the world’s greatest research libraries.
The Library’s collection is one of the largest in the world, holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats, including books, journals, newspapers, magazines, sound and music recordings, patents, databases, maps, manuscripts, stamps, prints, drawings and much more.
It is unique in its breadth, depth and scope. Many items are priceless and irreplaceable.

4. It is one of the six legal deposit libraries of the United Kingdom and is entitled to receive copies of all publications produced in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. We build, curate and preserve the UK’s national collection of published, written and digital content 720 linear kilometres 70% in Boston Spa 30% in London

6. UK Legal Deposit
Preserve a published record of UK culture, politics, society, technology …
Distributed collecting
Established 1662: Bodley’s Library, Royal Library, Cambridge University Library
From 1911: 6 Legal Deposit Libraries
Printed works published in the UK: Books, Journals, Newspapers, Magazines Sheets of letterpress or music Maps, plans, charts, tables

7. Agency for the Legal Deposit Libraries (ALDL)
UK Legal Deposit
Send a single printed copy to…
The British Library
Legal Deposit Office
Boston Spa
Wetherby
West Yorkshire
LS23 7BY
If requested to do so, send 5 further copies to…
Agency for the Legal Deposit Libraries (ALDL)
161 Causewayside
Edinburgh
EH9 1PH

8. Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003
Responding to “digital black hole”
Established principle that Legal Deposit could extend to ‘works published in media other than print’
Addressed copyright restrictions on collecting digital content
Excluded sound recordings and film
Extended protections of Legal Deposit to non-print works

9. The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations
Applies to the published work
Print is the default option – where it exists
Electronic deposit is one copy shared by all Libraries
Where electronic is the only published format, delivery is by web harvester or alternative arrangement agreed with publisher

10. Key purpose of the regulations
To ensure a national collection of non-print publications;
To enable an efficient system in which material is archived and preserved in the legal deposit libraries;
To govern how the deposited copies may be used, balancing the needs of libraries and researchers with the interests of publishers and rights holders;
To facilitate long-term preservation, so that the material may continue to be accessed in future; and
To ensure long-term viability by requiring both legal deposit libraries and publishers to share the responsibility for archiving without imposing an unreasonable burden on any institution

11. Publisher Deposit Portal

12. 2.5 Million eJournal articles
Success so far
150TB of Archived Web growing at 60TB per year
250K eBooks
Digital map viewer: Ordnance Survey & Geoinformation Group
Phase 1 is now complete
And happily have ingested 250,000 eBooks; 2.5 million eJournal articles and
150 TB of Archived web which is made up of about 10 million web sites and 6 Billion objects
2.5 Million eJournal articles

13. How do we do that? Deposit with British Library (Boston Spa)
NLS
Edinburgh
British Library
Boston Spa
Trinity Coll. Dublin
And ingest of ejournals, eBooks and Web Archives:
We have a four node system
The content is sent from the publisher or aggregator to The British Library in Boston Spa Yorkshire
NLW Aberystwyth
Cambridge Univ.
Bodleian Oxford
British Library St Pancras

14. How do we do that? Deposit with British Library (Boston Spa)
Content shared and distributed to four nodes: - Boston Spa - St Pancras - Aberystwyth - Edinburgh
NLS
Edinburgh
British Library
Boston Spa
Trinity Coll. Dublin
Once an item has been ingested it is replicated to the other three locations.
NLW Aberystwyth
Cambridge Univ.
Bodleian Oxford
British Library St Pancras

15. How do we do that? Deposit with British Library (Boston Spa)
Content shared and distributed to four nodes: - Boston Spa - St Pancras - Aberystwyth - Edinburgh
Access at each node, and by secure network for - Cambridge University Library - Bodleian - Trinity College Dublin
NLS
Edinburgh
British Library
Boston Spa
Trinity Coll. Dublin
University LDLs are connected to either BL St Pancras node or BL Boston Spa node so that they can securely access NPLD content hosted on these nodes.
Checks are made across the nodes of the stored items – if an item is found to be degraded or corrupted it is replaced with a suitable copy from another node.
NLW Aberystwyth
Cambridge Univ.
Bodleian Oxford
British Library St Pancras

16. We take great care of everything deposited…
Well defined security policies open to audit
Shared infrastructure is protected against unauthorised access and other security risks
Controlled access to each library’s network
All IT and security audits are reported to the relevant Governance body
Protecting copyright and the commercial interests of the publishers is key to this legislation and we provide secure storage behind a layered security model

17. What are the restrictions to use of NPLD
Single concurrent access per item per Library
No digital copies are to be removed from the Library, No digital sharing or screen shots
Can only access content on Library terminals
Restrictions upon use include:
Digital copies are not permitted within the act. Readers can print works in line with fair use or fair dealing but cannot have a digital copy.

18. Useful contacts…
Print book deposit Electronic book deposit Contact details