During the next 12 months, the British Library is committed to:
Publishing a revised set of content strategies across the 38 Arts and Humanities (A&H) and Social Sciences (SocSci) research disciplines and the eight special formats of materials that were covered in the Content Strategy: www.bl.uk/contentstrategy;
Working towards the development of a strategy for Science, Technology and Medicine (STM), identifying the communities upon which the Library needs to focus, the services that should be offered and the content that ought to be collected or connected to;
Taking forward the ‘connecting' element of the Content Strategy in A&H/SocSci by determining criteria for selecting partners, developing existing partnerships and establishing new relationships in support of collaborative collecting, access and preservation;
Planning the transition from collecting print only or print and electronic formats in parallel, to collecting digital copies only for
a. purchased UK journals that duplicate print copies held under legal deposit, and
b. purchased overseas journals,
taking into account, in both instances, concerns raised over long-term preservation and access to digital content;
Deciding moderate shifts in A&H/SocSci collecting that can be accommodated within existing resources.
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