Where can you view the material?
The legally deposited material is made available at Royal Danish Library or the Danish Film Institute in accordance with the provisions of the Personal Data Act and the Copyright Act.
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Of the two copies of a work that are handed in, one copy is a "museum" copy that must be secured for the future, and which can therefore normally only be used in the library's reading room. The second is a spare copy. The spare copy can usually be borrowed, unless the copyright rules prevent it.
Material in digital form may not be lent out, but only made available to individuals for personal review or study at the library.
Reproduction in digital form is not permitted.
Some of the material is registered in the national bibliography and at the library, so that it is searchable in the library system. However, much of the submitted material is registered summarily. It is only arranged in the library's vaults so that it can be found.
Radio and TV programmes
Radio and TV programmes are preserved in the library's radio and television collection. We provide access to deposited radio and television programmes in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright Act. Once the programmes have been processed, they can be used by anyone who shows up at the library's locations or at the Danish Film Institute. Processing times may vary, depending on whether the deposit process was automated or manual.
Read more about access to radio and TV programmes.
Films
Submitted films are preserved at the Danish Film Institute. Films that have received support from the Danish Film Institute may, with regard to the preservation obligation, be shown free of charge to a paying audience as part of the department's film cultural activities.
Read more about collecting films.
Internet material
Due to existing legislation, only researchers with a scientific purpose can access the content of the online archive. You must therefore apply for access to the archive, after which data can be released.
Read more about the possibilities and conditions for access.
Alternatively, there are a number of other freely available web archives that can be used if you cannot get research access to the archive - Internet Archive, IIPC Collaborative Collections and Arquivo.pt.
In addition to research access to the archive itself, anyone can search for the occurrence of words in HTML pages in the archive and view link graphs for selected areas of the archive.