Akeroyd, J; Canty, N; Watkinson, A; (2017) Research to Support the British Library's Work on Emerging Formats. CIBER Research Ltd.: Newbury, UK.

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This report was commissioned by the British Library (BL) through a Call in January 2017 to undertake a review of the challenges to the Library in terms of capture, access, storage and preservation of Ebooks, Interactive narratives and structured data. The BL is charged through the Legal Deposit Act with collecting the cultural and intellectual outputs of the UK for posterity and an amendment to that Act of 6 April 2013, the Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations 20131 came into force, extending legal deposit to include electronic publications, whether offline or online. The BL therefore has a brief to be aware of all digital publications and any perceived trends or changes. This report considered what the BL identified as what have been termed “emerging formats”, where failure to collect and preserve content could result in a significant loss of the UK’s published record in that there is no print equivalent in whole or in part.

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