British Library gets Royal accent to store and save electronic data, from now on.
Some years ago when a copy of every printed item was safely stored it increased the shelf space by four miles per year, it was said..
via iblog
What non-print materials will now be saved? The major categories of non-print materials include:
- Publications accessed over the Internet, e.g. electronic journals.
- Websites - a limited and well-defined range of sites, judged to be research-level, will be regularly harvested for addition to the national archive.
- Publications on media other than paper, such as microfilm or fiche.
- 'Hand-held' electronic publications on media such as CD-ROM or DVD.