legal-deposit-books@bl.uk (monographs)legal-deposit-serials@bl.uk serials)LDO.newspapers@bl.uk (newspapers) The standard format in which publications must be deposited is print. The Agency acts as a central point from which legal deposit applications and receipts are submitted. The Agency is responsible for registering the deposit of publications and distributing this material securely to the five legal deposit libraries we represent. If your publications are available on the open web, we may be able to capture them using our web crawling software. If you assign ISBNs to your publications, you can also submit publications through our publisher submission portal. To discuss other deposit options, please contact us. Depository libraries have separate safeguards that limit the use of deposited material to activities permitted by the Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Printed Works) Regulations, 2013. There are 6 UK legal deposit libraries. In addition to the British Library, these are: Each new publication and each new edition of a publication, which may contain corrections, additions or additional content, is subject to submission. Learn more about legal deposit and electronic publications In accordance with the 2013 Regulations, a deposited electronic publication may only be published on one computer on the premises of each legal deposit library.

The legal deposit system also has advantages for authors and publishers: publishers have sometimes turned to depository libraries to obtain copies of their own publications that they no longer own, but which have been preserved through legal deposits. Copies of these depository libraries must be delivered to a specific address. They share an agent for requesting and receiving deposited works: the deposited copy “must be of the same quality as the greatest number of copies made at the time of delivery for publication in the United Kingdom” [Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003]. Access is on the premises of the six legal deposit libraries. Legal deposit entitles the British Library to collect a copy of any publication published in the United Kingdom, including electronic publications. The British Library is entitled to provide a free copy of each publication within one month of the date of publication. The deposited copy must be “of the same quality as the best copies made at the time of delivery for publication in the United Kingdom” [Legal deposit Libraries Act 2003]. The British Library issues a receipt for each work deposited. Advice to publishers on what material should be sent to us and where it should be sent for legal deposit For works that are published in both print and non-print media and are essentially identical, only one medium is subject to deposit; A publisher should continue to file printed matter until the publisher and depository libraries mutually agree to switch to electronic filing. This obligation has existed in English law since 1662 for printed books and papers and since 6 April 2013 for electronic and other non-printed publications. It contributes to the systematic collection of the country`s published works, and thus its intellectual archives and future published heritage, in order to preserve the material for future generations and make it available to readers in designated depository libraries.

Legal deposit supports a cycle of knowledge in which deposited works provide inspiration and raw material for new books that are eventually published. Catalogue entries for deposited works can be searched online via library catalogues such as Explore the British Library. Material collected from the internet can be found in our UK web archive. If you publish content in electronic form, you must deposit it with the British Library. We offer different deposit methods depending on the medium or format you use to publish material. The Agency of the Legal Deposit Libraries Agent 21 Marnin Way Edinburgh EH12 9GD Tel: +44 (0)131 334 2833 Email: publisher.enquiries@legaldeposit.org.uk Reprints of publications already filed for which no changes have been made need not be filed. If you are a publisher, you must deposit a copy of any work you publish in the UK with the British Library and as required by legal deposit libraries. Digital publications are collected through web archiving or other methods agreed with publishers. Learn more about legal deposit and how you can deposit your print or digital publications.

You`ll also find information on how to store and retrieve your posts safely. The obligation to deposit does not depend on whether it has been assigned an International Standard Book Number (ISBN) or a serial number (ISSN), but on whether it can be considered published or not. A work is deemed to have been published when copies of it are made available to the public. The copy filed must be sent within one month of the date of publication or the date of receipt of the application, whichever is later. Only one reader can access the same electronic publication (the same relevant material) at a time.