Saturday, November 15 2003
Digital publications will now hold their place in history thanks to a private members bill, which became law on Friday, that allows the UK's six legal deposit libraries to demand copies of works published on CD, DVD and the internet.
Under legal deposit legislation passed in 1911, publishers in the UK and Ireland are required to lodge a copy of all items with the British Library within one month of their publication. The UK's five legal deposit libraries, which include the University library at Cambridge and Dublin's Trinity College library, have the right to claim copies of these works within their first year of issue.
