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Comparative Analysis of Laws and Regulations for Legal Deposit in Major Countries

  • Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
  • Abbr : JKLISS
  • 2021, 52(3), pp.369-393
  • DOI : 10.16981/kliss.52.3.202109.369
  • Publisher : Korean Library And Information Science Society
  • Research Area : Interdisciplinary Studies > Library and Information Science
  • Received : August 28, 2021
  • Accepted : September 17, 2021
  • Published : September 30, 2021

Yong Wan Cho 1

1대구가톨릭대학교

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ABSTRACT

The legal deposit is a comprehensive and systemic method for acquiring a country’s publications. This study aims to compare laws and regulations about legal deposit among several countries that have different histories and traditions and to supplement laws and regulations of Korea’s legal deposit. To do this, research papers and laws, regulations, guides, web sites and online systems about legal deposit of eight countries including USA, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, France, Japan, Singapore, and Korea were reviewed. This study tried to compare and analyse several categories including publications to be deposited or not deposited, requirements, due dates, expenses, and numbers of copies for deposit, and penalty for noncompliance with legal deposit. Also, online publications to be deposited or not deposited, requirements and methods for deposit were compared and analysed. At last, some suggestions were also made for improvement in laws and regulations of <Library Law> in Korea.

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