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Building NED: Open Access to Australia’s Digital Documentary Heritage

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  • Barbara Lemon

    (National and State Libraries Australia, Melbourne, Victoria 3000, Australia)

  • Kerry Blinco

    (Library and Archives NT, Darwin City, Northern Territory 0800, Australia)

  • Brendan Somes

    (State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales 2000, Australia)

Abstract

This article charts the development of Australia’s national edeposit service (NED), from concept to reality. A world-first collaboration between the national, state and territory libraries of Australia, NED was launched in 2019 and transformed our approach to legal deposits in Australia. NED is more than a repository, operating as a national online service for depositing, preserving and accessing Australian electronic publications, with benefits to publishers, libraries and the public alike. This article explains what makes NED unique in the context of global research repository infrastructure, outlining the ways in which NED member libraries worked to balance user needs with technological capacity and the variations within nine sets of legal deposit legislation.

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  • Barbara Lemon & Kerry Blinco & Brendan Somes, 2020. "Building NED: Open Access to Australia’s Digital Documentary Heritage," Publications, MDPI, vol. 8(2), pages 1-11, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jpubli:v:8:y:2020:i:2:p:19-:d:342722
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