Access to electronic publications in TEL: a common interest of national libraries and publishers

Trier, Gerard van

IFLA Council and General Conference / .
(ReLIS:jul:juljin:6689)

Abstract:

The theme of this open session is how legal deposit and copyright laws meet the national libraries’ mission. There is no one single mission of national libraries worldwide. But in all the possible missions, there is one common denominator and that is the safeguarding of the national cultural heritage. Legal deposit is clearly instrumental to this mission: building deposit collections (on a legal or voluntary basis) enables the national library to operate as one of the most important national heritage institutions in a country. Building collections makes only sense when these collections are in some way available to the public. Therefore, the mission implies giving access to deposit collections, now or in the future. Giving access means that one have to be aware of copyright.

Creation: 2002
Keywords: Publicaciones electronicas ; Acceso al documento ; Bibliotecas nacionales ; Editores

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