British Library to collect electronic publications

A while ago I discovered that the British Library had a policy of not issuing serial numbers to non-print materials such as electronic publications, including online journals and blogs. The Guardian reports today that a change in legal deposit law was required, which has now taken place. The British Library press release states that the capture policy will encompass "non-commercial publications" and CD-ROMs and, "will include the selective harvesting of information from the 2.96 million websites with a .uk suffix". Blogs are not mentioned.