National Libraries Digital Preservation: Processes for Legal Deposit OA Books | Zenodo Skip to main Communities My dashboard Log in Sign up Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (Copim) Published April 30, 2026 | Version v1 Report Open National Libraries Digital Preservation: Processes for Legal Deposit OA Books Authors/Creators Cole, Gareth 1 Fry, Jenny 2 Maynard, Sally 2 Turpin, Holly 2 Show affiliations 1. University of Exeter 2. Loughborough University Description The purpose of the research that underpins this report was to identify current practices amongst National Libraries regarding the digital preservation of legal deposit Open Access (OA) monographs. The goal was to gain a deeper understanding of what the needs are for an international preservation network of National Libraries, and to better understand current practices, workflows and policy landscapes within which the National Libraries operate. In this research we conducted process mapping workshops with five National Libraries, including, the British Library, Library and Archives Canada, the National Library of Scotland, Qatar National Library and the National Library of the Czech Republic. These process mapping workshops have all been documented within this report as case studies and correlating process maps, with the process maps included as appendices. In these workshops, seven workflow phases were identified in the digital preservation of OA monographs. These were: identify; acquisition; pre-ingest; ingest; repository management; digital preservation; and access. Each National Library then identified the various touchpoints in relation to these phases of their individual processes, which include external stakeholders, internal teams and departments and internal and external systems. Notes (English) The Open Book Futures project is co-funded by Arcadia and Research England Development (RED) Fund (UKRI) . Arcadia is a charitable foundation that works to protect nature, preserve cultural heritage and promote open access to knowledge. Since 2002 Arcadia has awarded more than $1 billion to organizations around the world. Research England Development (RED) Fund (UKRI) is a fund supporting institutional-level innovative projects in research and knowledge exchange including collaborations between education providers and between education providers and business. Files National-libraries-digital-preservation-open-book-futures-report.pdf Files (4.5 MB) Name Size Download all National-libraries-digital-preservation-open-book-futures-report.pdf md5:75d2b146d79d10520c2f9bc2249be8a4 4.5 MB Preview Download 100 Views 700 Downloads Show more details All versions This version Views Total views 100 100 Downloads Total downloads 700 700 Data volume Total data volume 3.2 GB 3.2 GB More info on how stats are collected.... Versions External resources Indexed in OpenAIRE Communities Details DOI DOI Badge DOI 10.5281/zenodo.19912140 Markdown [](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19912140) reStructuredText .. image:: https://zenodo.org/badge/DOI/10.5281/zenodo.19912140.svg :target: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19912140 HTML <a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19912140"><img src="https://zenodo.org/badge/DOI/10.5281/zenodo.19912140.svg" alt="DOI"></a> Image URL https://zenodo.org/badge/DOI/10.5281/zenodo.19912140.svg Target URL https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19912140 Resource type Report Publisher Zenodo Rights License Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International The Creative Commons Attribution license allows re-distribution and re-use of a licensed work on the condition that the creator is appropriately credited. Read more Citation Export Technical metadata Created April 30, 2026 Modified April 30, 2026 Jump up About About Policies Infrastructure Principles Projects Roadmap Contact Blog Blog Support Help FAQ Developers REST API OAI-PMH Contribute GitHub Donate Funded by Powered by CERN Data Centre & InvenioRDM Status Privacy policy Cookie policy Terms of Use This site uses cookies. Find out more on how we use cookies Accept all cookies Accept only essential cookies