Post Implementation Review of the Legal Deposit libraries (Non-print Works) Regulations 2013
A review into the implementation of the Legal Deposit libraries (Non-print Works) Regulations 2013
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The review was conducted for DCMS by the Joint Committee on Legal Deposit. Its purpose was to consider the extent to which the main objective of the regulations had been achieved by their implementation, namely to allow for the preservation of the UK’s non-print publications for future generations.
The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations 2013 were introduced on 5 April 2013. The purpose of the regulations was to extend the system that requires every printed work published in the UK to be deposited with the British Library and, upon request, with 5 other legal deposit libraries. The extension covers non-print works, ones which are published in a format other than print. This means work published online (such as content from the internet, an e-book or an electronic journal) or work published off line (published in a physical form other than print such as a CD-ROM, DVD-ROM or microfilm). The extension of legal deposit to non-print works is designed to ensure that the UK’s non-print published output (and therefore the UK’s intellectual record and published heritage) is preserved as an archive for research purposes, while also reducing the costs of legal deposit to publishers overall.
The Regulations included a commitment to conduct a non-statutory review after 5 years.