

It is the act of issuing or distributing to the public in the United Kingdom which renders a work liable for deposit.

The place of publication or printing, the nature of the imprint and size of distribution are immaterial. A work is said to have been published when copies of it are issued to the public.
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The requirement to deposit an item does not depend on its having been allocated an International Standard Book Number (ISBN) or Serial Number (ISSN), but on whether or not it can be considered to have been published. If your publications do not have an ISBN or ISSN, you still need to deposit them. They share an agent for requesting and taking receipt of deposited works:Įmail: If your publications are without an ISBN or ISSN Ĭopies for these deposit libraries must be delivered to a specified address. The deposited copy “is to be of the same quality as the largest number of copies which, at the time of delivery, have been produced for publication in the United Kingdom”. The deposited copy must be delivered within one month of the day of publication or the day on which the request is received, whichever is later. The request may be made before publication and may include all future numbers or parts of an encyclopaedia, newspaper, magazine, journal or other work. The request must be made in writing (whether sent by electronic or other means) no later than 12 months after the day of the work’s publication.

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+44 (0)1937 546409 (newspapers) Other legal deposit libraries may request a copy of your publicationīodleian Libraries University of Oxford, Cambridge University Library, the National Library of Scotland, the National Library of Wales and the Library of Trinity College Dublin are each entitled to delivery, free of charge, of one copy of every publication that they request. books (including pamphlets, magazines or newspapers)Įvery new publication and every new edition of a publication, each of which may contain corrections, amendments or additional content, is liable for deposit.In the case of works published in print, it covers the following categories: The Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003 applies to any person who publishes in the United Kingdom. The British Library will issue a receipt for every work deposited. The copy deposited must be “of the same quality as the best copies which, at the time of delivery, have been produced for publication in the United Kingdom”. The British Library is entitled to delivery, free of charge, of one copy of every publication within one month beginning with the day of its publication.
