The article traces the necessity of adding the electronic
documents with remote access to the system of mandatory depositing,
thus preserving them in a national electronic archive and making
them available for usage. It has been proven that this type of
resources is an important part of the national documentary
heritage, that its collection and preservation is not within the
reach of a separate organization and that it would be reasonable to
be realized as a joint, cooperative initiative.
The imposed worldwide perception that the network resources
should be registered selectively, with emphasis placed on
electronic books and electronic scientific periodicals is
justified. The possibility of assigning long-term storage and
access to the collected documents to an institution with
sustainable financing and accumulated experience in working with
documents, their processing and organization for usage is
considered in detail. It is logical that the National Library,
which has the obligation to store the national printed publications
and to register them in the national bibliography depositary, to
extend its duties to store also the documents published in
Internet.
The paper describes also the project "Electronic Documents with
Remote Access - Creation of a National Archive, Registration and
Possibility of Usage", which the National Library "St. St. Cyril
and Methodius" has developed and in 2014 deposited at the Ministry
of Culture.
Key words: electronic documents with
remote access; national electronic archive; copy rights for network
resources usage.