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Agreement with the publisher
Acquisition 2004
Date Various years
Signature e-Depot
The Koninklijke Bibliotheek's e-depot is a digital archive that aims to achieve permanent access to digital sources of data. Without this type of environment, digital sources would quickly be rendered unusable as software and hardware become obsolete; the data carriers likewise have a limited lifespan. The e-depot is designed to store Dutch (electronic) publications. It also has room to accommodate the Dutch web archive and masters of digitalised material. The Koninklijke Bibliotheek is one of the first institutions in the world to develop quality expertise in this area and therefore has become a key player. Now that the supply of information has become a global affair, the Koninklijke Bibliotheek has opened the e-depot to international publishers as well.
In June 2004, an important series of publications prompted the expansion of the e-depot. During the International Publishers Association conference in Berlin, Wim van Drimmelen and Robert Campbell, president of the international scientific publishing firm Blackwell Publishing Ltd, signed an agreement on the sustainable archiving of Blackwell's digital publications in the Koninklijke Bibliotheek's e-depot.
By virtue of the agreement, the Koninklijke Bibliotheek receives digital copies of all journals published by Blackwell that are available from the Blackwell synergy web platform. At the time, this covered approximately 380,000 articles from 740 scientific and medical journals.
Today, the Koninklijke Bibliotheek's e-depot contains over twelve million scientific articles in journals of science, technology and medicine from twelve leading publishers, including Elsevier Science, Kluwer Academic Publishers and Springer. Articles from open access publisher BioMed Central as well as material from fifteen academic repositories are included. The agreement with Blackwell expands the digital archives with publications from a prominent foreign publishing firm. The Koninklijke Bibliotheek aims to enter into similar agreements with all of the important national and international publishers of scientific journals.
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