'Preservation, Access and Intellectual Property Rights Challenges for Libraries in the Digital Environment. . Adrienne Muir. 05 June 2006. Digitisation of collections provides great opportunities for widening access to collections and especially to unique, rare and fragile material. It also enables preservation by creating a surrogate and thus reducing handling of originals. However, the legal status of such activity is unclear. By the Institute for Public Policy Research.

By Institute for Public Policy Research.,Canada.