Digital Library Futures: The Impact of E-Legal Deposit in the Academic Sector

这项研究将回答以下主要问题：电子法定存款变化对英国学术存款图书馆及其用户有何影响？该项目的主要贡献将是提供适用于学术存款图书馆的具体案例的电子合法存款的影响的详细说明。法定保证金在确保系统地保护世界已公布的书面遗产方面发挥着重要作用。在英国，它为一个受信任的国家和学术图书馆团体提供了一个监管框架，以收集印刷形式的出版文本材料。2013年推出的电子法定存款首次纳入了数字材料，采取措施确保英国的“数字宇宙”的安全。尽管进行了这种扩张，但法定押金仍然主要被认为是一种长期保存藏品的方式，并对当代研究人员如何使用这些材料进行了限制。然而，已发表的关于法定存款的研究往往集中在其监管和长期保存方面。关于电子法定存款如何影响负责制定法规的英国学术机构或其用户的研究相对较少。因此，需要以用户为中心的研究，探索如何访问和使用合法存款收藏，以及这些收藏应该在多大程度上支持大学图书馆的当代研究。我们将与两家主要图书馆合作，制作两个案例研究：Bodleian图书馆和剑桥大学图书馆。我们将重点关注两个直接受上述变化影响的特定群体：负有法定存款监管责任的大学图书馆；以及这些图书馆的学术和非学术用户。虽然这两个群体在电子法定存款的概念和实施过程中一直是讨论的焦点，但这项研究将阐明该立法的更广泛的社会、文化和制度影响。它将提供对学术界研究人员如何使用电子合法存款收藏的见解，并将其应用于更广泛的社会和文化问题，包括数字包容、信息民主化以及图书馆在解决获取知识的数字鸿沟方面的作用。在这样做的过程中，它将询问数字时代法定存款的好处和挑战，并将解决监管框架与学术界和社会发展之间的紧张关系，学术和社会的发展使得数字学术和数字包容对于充分参与公民生活至关重要。该项目将与参与决策、实施和收藏发展的关键人物接触，并包括当代用户的声音，他们的信息行为纳入了这些重要的收藏。我们将制作一系列期刊文章和会议论文，为非专家受众提供强大的在线存在，并与数字资源的用户和创作者接触。这项研究的最终结果将是一份白皮书，将提交一次公开研讨会，提供一个论坛，为进一步研究法定存款收缴的使用提供动力。一个中心目标是深入了解目前形式的电子合法存款如何与数字学术和数字包容方面的新趋势以及与现有图书馆服务相互作用。英国是电子法定存款领域的领先者之一，这项研究有可能为面临类似挑战的国际社会提供重要和及时的干预。它不仅将有助于理解和开发学术存款图书馆的数字馆藏，而且将有助于国际上关于数字时代图书馆未来的辩论。

This research will answer the following main question: what is the impact of e-legal deposit changes upon UK academic deposit libraries and their users? The project's principal contribution will be to provide a detailed account of the impact of e-legal deposit, applied to the specific case of academic deposit libraries. Legal deposit plays a significant role in ensuring the systematic preservation of the world's published written heritage. In the UK, it provides a regulatory framework for a trusted group of national and academic libraries to collect published textual materials in print form. The 2013 introduction of electronic legal deposit incorporated digital materials for the first time, taking steps to secure the UK's "Digital Universe." Despite this expansion, legal deposit is still conceived primarily as a way to preserve collections for the long term, with restrictions on how the materials can be used by contemporary researchers. However, published research into legal deposit often focuses on its regulatory and long-term preservation aspects. There is relatively little research into how e-legal deposit has affected the UK academic institutions tasked with enacting the regulations, or indeed their users. As a result, there is a need for user-focused research which explores how legal deposit collections are accessed and used, and to what extent these collections should support contemporary research in academic libraries.We will produce two case studies, in collaboration with two major libraries: The Bodleian Libraries, and the Cambridge University Library. We will focus on two specific groups which are directly affected by the outlined changes: academic libraries with regulatory responsibilities for legal deposit; and the academic and non-academic users of these libraries. While both groups have been the focus of discussion during the conception and implementation of e-legal deposit, this research will shed light on the wider social, cultural and institutional implications of the legislation. It will provide insights into how researchers in academia uses electronic legal deposit collections, and apply these to wider social and cultural issues including digital inclusion, information democratisation, and the role of libraries in addressing the digital divide in access to knowledge. In doing so, it will interrogate the benefits and challenges of legal deposit in the digital age, and will address the tension between a regulatory framework designed with long-term preservation in mind, and developments in academia and society which have made digital scholarship and digital inclusion vital for full participation in civic life.The project will engage with key figures involved in policymaking, implementation and collection development, as well as including the voices of contemporary users whose information behaviour incorporates these important collections. We will produce a series of journal articles and conference papers, provide a strong online presence for non-expert audiences, and engaged with users and creators of digital resources. The research will culminate in a white paper, to be presented a public symposium, providing a forum to build momentum for further research into the use of legal deposit collections. A central aim is to provide insights into how e-legal deposit in its current form interacts with emerging trends in digital scholarship and digital inclusion, and with existing library services. The UK is one of the nations leading the way in e-legal deposit, and this research has the potential to provide a vital and timely intervention for the international community as they face similar challenges. It will contribute not only to understanding and developing digital collections for academic deposit libraries, but also to international debates on the future of libraries in the digital age.