The Department for Culture Media and Sport (DCMS) invites responses to Proposal on the Collection and Preservation of UK Offline and Microform Publications and UK Online Publications (Available free of charge and without access restrictions)

This online document is a republication of the consultation document in commentable form.  As well as supporting comments for each paragraph, this republication provides a unique URI for each paragraph in the original document, which you may use as reference links in any online discussion you engage in about the consultation (see Help for details on linking to this document).

Chapter 1 provides general information about legal deposit and the legal deposit advisory panel (LDAP) proposals while Chapter 2 describes the consultation process.  Annexes A-F set out the main themes and questions:

Annex A: Proposals for Offline and Microform Publications
Annex B: Proposals for Online Publications
Annex C: Online Content to be Published
Annex D: Impact Assessments – Intervention and options, analysis and evidence
Annex E: Further Details on Territoriality
Annex F: Further Details on Harvesting Process

Finally, Annex G provides a summary of the consultation questions.

Closing date for responses is Monday 1 March 2010.

Please note all comments here will be supplied to the DCMS by the consultation deadline and may be published unless you ask us not do so.  Moreover all information in responses, including personal information, may be subject to publication or disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. If any correspondent requests confidentiality this cannot be guaranteed, and will only be possible if considered appropriate under the legislation.

You can download the consultation documents, including Welsh language version, from the DCMS website. A summary of responses will be published after the closing date.

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