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Legal Deposit Leaflet 8/8/2005 1:58 pm Page 1 OTHER LEGAL DEPOSIT LIBRARIES INTERNATIONAL STANDARD SERIAL NUMBERS (ISSNs) The Agency for the Legal Deposit Libraries is authorised to collect publications on behalf of An ISSN is an 8-digit code which identifies a serial LEGAL the other five legal deposit libraries. Publications publication, i.e. a publication issued in successive parts, and enquiries should be addressed to: having a common title, and intended to be continued DEPOSIT indefinitely. ISSNs are issued by: The Agent Agency for the Legal Deposit Libraries ISSN UK Centre in the 100 Euston Street The British Library London Boston Spa, Wetherby National Published NW1 2HQ West Yorkshire Archive www.llgc.org.uk/cla LS23 7BQ T +44 (0)20 7388 5061 T +44 (0)1937 546958/9 F +44 (0)20 7383 3540 F +44 (0)1937 546562 [email protected] [email protected] Irish publishers should send material destined Irish ISSNs are issued by: for the five libraries to: Irish ISSN Centre Irish Copyright Agency National Library of Ireland c/o Trinity College Library Kildare Street College Street Dublin 2 Dublin 2 www.nli.ie www.tcd.ie/library T +353 (0)1603 0351 T +353 (0)1608 1021 F +353 (0)1603 0289 F +353 (0)1671 9003 [email protected] INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBERS (ISBNs) An ISBN identifies one title or edition of a title from one specific publisher and is unique to that title or edition. ISBNs for British and Irish publishers are issued by: UK International Standard Book Numbering Agency 3rd Floor Midas House The British Library 62 Goldsworth Road The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford Woking Cambridge University Library GU21 6LQ www.nbdrs.com/isbn_agency.htm The National Library of Scotland T +44 (0)870 777 8712 The Library of Trinity College, Dublin F +44 (0)870777 8714 The National Library of Wales [email protected] August 2005 www.bl.uk Legal Deposit Leaflet 8/8/2005 1:58 pm Page 4 WHAT IS LEGAL DEPOSIT? in due course through secondary legislation which will be WHERE SHOULD PUBLICATIONS BE SENT? introduced incrementally through government Regulations, The principle of legal deposit has been well established for format by format, as recommended to the Secretary of THE BRITISH LIBRARY nearly four centuries and has great advantages for authors State by an Advisory Panel. In the meantime, a code of Publications destined for the British Library (with the and publishers. Publications deposited with the libraries are practice exists in the United Kingdom for the voluntary deposit exception of newspapers and pure electronic content) made available to registered users, are preserved for the of electronic publications, and also for microform and other should be sent to: benefit of future generations, and become part of the non-printed publications. In Ireland, the Copyright and Related national heritage. Rights Act 2000 proposes to extend legal deposit to electronic The Legal Deposit Office formats. The British Library Legal deposit is the act of depositing published material Boston Spa, Wetherby in designated libraries. Publishers and distributors in the West Yorkshire United Kingdom and in Ireland have a legal obligation HOW IS INFORMATION ABOUT LS23 7BY to deposit published material in the six legal deposit PUBLICATIONS MADE AVAILABLE? www.bl.uk libraries which collectively maintain the national published archive of the British Isles. These are: Publications are recorded in the catalogues of the six Books legal deposit libraries. The catalogues are accessible on the T +44 (0)1937 546268 The British Library World Wide Web and will remain essential research tools for [email protected] The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford generations to come. Most of the books and new serial Serials Cambridge University Library titles are listed in the British National Bibliography (BNB), T +44 (0)1937 546267 The National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh which is used by librarians and the book trade for stock [email protected] The Library of Trinity College, Dublin selection. All the legal deposit libraries contribute to BNB, General which has a world-wide distribution. F +44 (0)1937 546273 The National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth Newspapers destined for the British Library should be sent to: Publishers are obliged to send one copy of each of their WHAT IS A PUBLISHER? publications to the British Library within one month of publication. The other five libraries have the right to claim The Newspaper Legal Deposit Office items. In practice many publishers deposit their publications Within the terms of the Legal Deposit Libraries and The British Library with all six libraries without waiting for a claim to be made. Copyright Acts, “publisher” is understood to be anyone Unit 3, 120 Colindale Avenue who issues publications to the public. London NW9 5LF WHAT IS IT BASED ON? www.bl.uk WHAT ARE PUBLISHERS REQUIRED T +44 (0)20 7412 7382 F +44 (0)20 7412 7390 In the United Kingdom, the Legal Deposit Libraries Act TO DEPOSIT? [email protected] 2003, and, in Ireland, the Copyright Act of 1963 (to be replaced by similar provisions in the Copyright and Related Items published and distributed in the United Kingdom and Enquiries about the deposit of pure electronic Rights Act, 2000) make it obligatory for publishers and in Ireland are liable for deposit. The requirement remains, content should be sent to: distributors in the United Kingdom and Ireland to deposit irrespective of the number of copies in a published edition, the price of individual copies, or the size of the publishing their publications. body. Items originally published elsewhere but distributed in The Digital Acquisitions Co-ordinator the United Kingdom and in Ireland are also liable for The British Library deposit. Boston Spa, Wetherby WHAT IS INCLUDED? West Yorkshire Every issue of a periodical, journal or newspaper should be LS23 7BQ All printed publications come within the scope of legal deposit. deposited. Published maps and sheet music should also be www.bl.uk Under the Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003, electronic deposited. T +44 (0)1937 546535 publications will also come into scope. This will be effected [email protected].