Northern Ireland Official Publications Archive
at Queen's University Belfast
About the Archive
The Library at Queen’s has historically played an important role in collecting Northern Ireland official publications and making them available to the research community and the wider public.
Print publications have been collected for many years under National Archives and earlier HMSO guidance that the Library should be treated as an official deposit library for Northern Ireland official publications. For the period of September 2015 onwards, the Library has focused on the creation of a digital archive of Northern Ireland official publications.
Documents are gathered from departmental, agency, Assembly and other official websites and added to the archive for long term preservation. Associated document descriptions also enhance to the ability of researchers to find recent Northern Ireland official publications from a single source.
Collection development guidelines for the archive have been agreed with the British Library and documents descriptions are supplied to the British Library to support its commitment to preserve digital works under the Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations 2013.
Take Down Policy
Permanent withdrawal of material will only be considered if one of the following criteria is met:- Where the copyright holder feels that due to a change in circumstances the material originally published in good faith no longer should be made available.
- Making material available online is an infringement of copyright.
- The material was released in error and removal is required to rectify a mistake.