The National edeposit service (NED) is a new service launched by National, State, and Territory Libraries that allows Australian publishers to deposit digital publications like books, journals, magazines, and maps. Publishers can deposit publications in EPUB, MOBI, PDF, and other formats on the website www.ned.gov.au. Deposited publications will be available through state library catalogues and Trove. The State Library of New South Wales also collects websites and social media through tools like Archive-It, Pandora, and Vizie to archive digital government and cultural content for researchers.

1. Collecting Digital
Publications
Brendan Somes
Collection Strategy Specialist
27 May 2019

2. National edeposit service (NED)
Service that enables Australian publishers to
deposit their digital publications
Developed by National, State, and Territory
Libraries
Launches this Thursday
www.ned.gov.au is the place where
publishers can deposit

3. National edeposit service (NED) – What
Publications
• monographs (e.g. books, government
publications) – .epub, .mobi and .pdf formats
• serials (e.g. journals, magazines, annual
reports, newsletters including ‘members only’
newsletters, newspapers) - .epub, .mobi and
.pdf formats
• music scores - .epub, .mobi and .pdf formats
• maps – .pdf, .geopdf, .tiff and geotiff formats

4. National edeposit service (NED) – What
Publications
• Subject to legal/government deposit
• No digital rights management
• Bulk deposit available
• Can accept emails

5. What use is NED?
• If publication of interest and meets NED
criteria, advise publisher to deposit to NED
• If publisher allows, publication will be
freely available
• If NSW publication, available through
SLNSW catalogue
• Everything available at Trove

6. NED questions
• ned@sl.nsw.gov.au

7. Websites
• SLNSW collects websites in two ways
• Archive-It and Pandora

8. Archive-It
• Enables large scale collecting of websites
– e.g. nsw.gov.au domain
• Material is available at
https://www.archive-
it.org/organizations/826

9. Pandora
• Collaborative web collecting tool
developed by the National Library used by
national and state libraries
• Websites available via catalogues and
viewable in Trove
• https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/collection/17
393

10. What use?
• Any suggestions/ideas – send to
collections@sl.nsw.gov.au
• Best to get permission to archive website
(if non-government)
• SLNSW have permissions forms

11. Social Media
• Pandora/Archive-It can collect social
media accounts
• SLNSW also uses Vizie – CSIRO Data 61
built tool
• Enables large scale collecting of accounts
and hashtags and queries

12. Social Media
• Anonymised, aggregated content available
• https://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/research-and-
collections-significant-collections/social-
media-archive
• https://socialmediaarchive.sl.nsw.gov.au/pr
ototype/liveV4.html

13. What use?
• Any suggestions/ideas – send to
collections@sl.nsw.gov.au