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.
Highlights
The national edeposit service (NED) was born as Australia’s solution to an intractable problem.Prior to 2016, Australia’s national legal deposit provisions did not cover electronic publications.Our national, state and territory libraries, working across nine jurisdictions, each boasting vast collections of nineteenth- and twentieth-century print publications, were faced with a proliferation of digital material in increasingly varied formats
Internal analysis presented to National and State Libraries Australia (NSLA) found in 2014 that approximately
NED is exceptional in its provision of a dedicated support service for libraries, publishers and users
Summary
The national edeposit service (NED) was born as Australia’s solution to an intractable problem. A new single service would aid publishers in meeting their legal obligations, and could manage at scale the deposit, storage, preservation, discovery and delivery of published electronic material across the country It would provide a consistent user experience to researchers and members of the public in even the most remote corners of Australia. NED is exceptional in its provision of a dedicated support service for libraries, publishers and users It encompasses deposit, collaborative data management, long-term preservation, secure storage, and multi-channel access. Collaborative data management, long-term preservation, secure storage, and multi-channel access It provides a consistent experience for users while preserving local identity and accommodating continuing ‘ownership’ of publisher relationships by libraries in their jurisdictions. The sections below outline the ways in which NED is designed to meet the user needs of
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