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I. Textual Works and Musical Compositions
- Textual Works - Print
(Books, musical compositions, etc.) - Paper
- Archival quality paper (ISO 11108:1996 for Archival paper)
- Printing Process, in order of preference
- Lithography (offset printing press)
- Electrophotography (digital press)
- Inkjet (inkjet printer using stable pigment or dye-based inks)
- Binding and Packaging
- Slip-cased if available
- Binding, in descending order of preference:
- Hard cover
- Library binding (NISO Z39.78-2000)
- Sewn
- Glued only
- Soft cover
- Sewn
- Glued only
- Spiral- or plastic bound
- Stapled
- Loose-leaf (including all binders and indexes published as part of the deposit and offered for sale and distribution)
- Size
- Larger-sized editions (Note: large-type editions are not preferred over editions with conventional size typefaces)
- For broadsides and musical compositions, the Library prefers items:
- In protective folders
- Rolled (rather than folded)
- Rarity, Special Features, Illustrations
- Limited editions (including those with special binding or special features)
- Editions with the greatest number of unique features (such as pop-ups, overlaps, magnifiers, overlays, tabs, notches, etc.)
- Illustrated editions; original color illustrations preferred over black and white reproductions
- Completeness
- Complete work. For items published in a finite number of separate components, all elements published as part of the work and offered for sale or distribution must be submitted.
- All updates, supplements, releases, and supersessions published as part of the work and offered for sale or distribution must be submitted. Insertions (including all binders and indexes) must be received in a regular timely manner for proper maintenance of the deposit.
- For unaccompanied vocal musical compositions: open score, with each part on separate staff
- For vocal musical compositions with orchestral accompaniment and for instrumental musical compositions:
- Full score and up to 13 parts, if applicable; if published only by rental, lease, or lending, submit full score only
- Conductor's score and up to 13 parts, if applicable; if published only by rental, lease, or lending, submit conductor's score only
- Metadata
- As displayed on item:
- Title
- Creator
- Creation Date or Start Date/End Date
- Place of Publication
- Publisher/Producer/Distributor
- ISBN
- As displayed on item, if available:
- Other relevant identifiers (e.g., DOI, LCCN, etc.)
- Edition
- Subject descriptors
- Abstracts
- Textual Works - Digital
(Electronic books, etc. For electronic serials, see sec I.iii, below; for digital musical compositions, see sec. I.iv, below.) - Technical Characteristics, in order of preference
- Character encoding, in descending order of preference
- UTF-8, UTF-16 (with BOM), US-ASCII
- ISO 8859
- Formats, in order of preference
- XML-based markup formats, with included or accessible DTD/schema, XSD/XSL presentation stylesheet(s), and explicitly stated character encoding
- BITS-compliant (NLM Book DTD)
- EPUB-compliant
- Other widely-used book DTD/schemas (e.g., TEI, DocBook, etc)
- Page-layout formats
- Rarity and Special Features
- Limited editions (including those with special features such as high resolution images)
- Editions with the greatest number of unique features (such as additional content, multimedia, interactive elements)
- Completeness
- Complete work. For items published in a finite number of separate components, all elements published as part of the work and offered for sale or distribution must be submitted. Includes all associated external files and fonts considered integral to the publication
- All updates, supplements, releases, and supersessions published as part of the work and offered for sale or distribution must be submitted and received in a regular and timely manner for proper maintenance of the deposit
- Metadata
- As supported by format (e.g., standards-based formats such as ONIX, XMP, MODS, or MARCXML either embedded in or accompanying the digital item):
- Title
- Creator
- Creation Date or Start Date/End Date
- Place of publication
- Publisher/producer/distributor
- ISBN
- Contact information
- Include if available:
- Language of work
- Other relevant identifiers (e.g., DOI, LCCN, original URL, etc.)
- Edition
- Subject descriptors
- Abstracts
- Technological measures
- Files must contain no measures (such as digital rights management or encryption) that control access to or prevent use of the digital work.
- Technical Characteristics, in order of preference
- Other character encodings not listed here
- Formats, in order of preference
- other structured markup formats
- XHTML or HTML, with DOCTYPE declaration and presentation stylesheet(s)
- XML-based document formats (widely-used and publicly-documented), with presentation style sheet(s) if applicable. Includes DOCX/OOXML 2012 (ISO 29500), ODF (ISO/IEC 26300) and OOXML (ISO/IEC 29500).
- SGML, with included or accessible DTD
- Other XML-based non-proprietary formats, with presentation stylesheet(s)
- XML-based formats that use proprietary DTDs or schemas, with presentation stylesheet(s)
- Page-layout formats
- PDF (web optimized)
- Other formats
- Rich text format
- Plain text
- Widely-used proprietary word-processing formats
- Other text- or graphic-based formats not listed here that represent textual works
- Rarity and Special Features
- See Preferred
- Completeness
- See Preferred
- Metadata
- See Preferred
- Technological measures
- See Preferred
- Textual Works - Electronic Serials
- Technical Characteristics, in order of preference
- Character encoding, in descending order of preference:
- UTF-8, UTF-16 (with BOM), US-ASCII
- ISO 8859
- Formats, in order of preference
- Content compliant with the NISO JATS: Journal Article Tag Suite (ANSI/NISO Z39.96-2015 ) with XSD/XSL presentation stylesheet(s) and explicitly stated character encoding
- Page-layout formats
- Completeness
- Complete work. All elements considered integral to the publication and offered for sale or distribution must be submitted – e.g., articles, table(s) of contents, front matter, back matter, etc. Includes all associated external files and fonts considered integral to the publication.
- All updates, supplements, releases, and supersessions published as part of the work and offered for sale or distribution must be submitted and received in a regular and timely manner for proper maintenance of the deposit.
- Metadata
- Title-level metadata (e.g., standards-based formats such as ONIX, XMP, MODS, or MARCXML either embedded in or accompanying the digital item):
- Serial or journal title
- ISSN and ISSN-L
- Publisher
- Frequency
- Place of publication
- Article-level metadata as relevant or applicable (e.g., standards-based formats such as ONIX, XMP, MODS, or MARCXML either embedded in or accompanying the digital item):
- Volume(s)
- Number(s)
- Issue date(s)
- Article title(s)
- Article author(s)
- Article identifier (DOI, original URL, etc.)
- Include if available:
- Other descriptive metadata (e.g., subject heading(s), descriptor(s), abstract(s))
- Technological measures
- Files must contain no measures (such as digital rights management or encryption) that control access to or prevent use of the digital work.
- Technical Characteristics, in order of preference
- Other character encodings not listed here
- Formats, in order of preference
- Other structured or markup formats:
- Widely-used serials or journal non-proprietary XML-based DTDs/schemas with included or accessible DTD/schema, presentation stylesheet(s) and explicitly stated character encoding.
- Proprietary XML-based format for serials or journals (with documentation) with DTD/schema and presentation stylesheet(s)
- XHTML or HTML, with DOCTYPE declaration and presentation stylesheet(s)
- XML-based document formats (widely used and publicly documented). With presentation stylesheets, if applicable. Includes DOCX/OOXML 2012 (ISO 29500), ODF (ISO/IEC 26300) and OOXML (ISO/IEC 29500).
- Page-layout formats
- PDF (web-optimized with searchable text)
- Other formats
- Rich text format
- Plain text
- Widely-used proprietary word processing or page-layout formats
- Other text- or graphic-based formats not listed here that represent textual
- Completeness
- See Preferred
- Metadata
- See Preferred
- Technological measures
- See Preferred
- Digital Musical Compositions (score based representations)
- Technical Characteristics, in order of preference
- Character Encoding, in descending order of preference:
- UTF-8, UTF-16 (with BOM), US-ASCII
- ISO 8859
- Formats, in order of preference
- XML-based markup music notational format, with included or accessible DTD/schema, XSD/XSL presentation stylesheet(s), and explicitly stated character encoding.
- MusicXML
- Music Encoding Initiative (MEI)
- Other widely-used and publicly documented musical notation DTDs/schemas
- Page-layout formats
- Rarity and Special Features
- Limited editions (including those with special features)
- Editions with the greatest number of unique features (such as additional content, multimedia, interactive elements, etc.)
- Completeness
- Complete work. For items published in a finite number of separate components, all elements published as part of the work and offered for sale or distribution must be submitted. Includes all associated external files and fonts considered integral to the publication.
- All updates, supplements, releases, and supersessions published as part of the work and offered for sale or distribution must be submitted and received in a regular and timely manner for proper maintenance of the deposit.
- For unaccompanied vocal musical compositions: open score, with each part on separate staff
- For vocal musical compositions with orchestral accompaniment and for instrumental musical compositions:
- Full score and all parts, if applicable; if published only by rental, lease, or lending, full score only may be submitted
- Conductor’s score and all parts, if applicable; if published only by rental, lease, or lending, conductor’s score only may be submitted
- Metadata
- As supported by format (e.g., standards-based formats such as ONIX, XMP, MODS, or MARCXML either embedded in or accompanying the digital item):
- Title
- Creator
- Creation Date or Start Date/End Date
- Place of publication
- Publisher/ producer/ distributor
- ISMN
- Instrumentation
- Include if available:
- Language of work
- Other relevant identifiers (e.g., ISBN, DOI, LCCN, original URL, etc.)
- Edition
- Subject descriptors
- Events
- Abstracts
- Technological measures
- Files must contain no measures (such as digital rights management or encryption) that control access to or prevent use of the digital work.
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- Technical Characteristics, in order of preference
- Other character encodings not listed here
- Formats, in order of preference
- Other structured or markup formats
- XHTML or HTML, with DOCTYPE declaration and presentation stylesheet(s)
- SGML, with included or accessible DTD
- XML-based musical notation formats that use proprietary DTDs or schemas, with presentation stylesheet(s)
- Page-layout formats
- PDF (web-optimized)
- Other formats
- Widely-used proprietary music notation formats
- Other music composition formats (including graphics-based formats) not listed here
- Rarity and Special Features
- See Preferred
- Completeness
- See Preferred
- Metadata
- See Preferred
- Technological measures
- See Preferred