Legal Deposit
Arc follows the British Library rules for copyright libraries and supplies BDS the metadata following British Library standards for its Cataloguing-in-Publication programme. The British Library at Boston Spa processes a digital book file and our metadata; they then manage dissemination to the other five legal deposit libraries across the UK and Ireland.
Journals
All Arc Humanities Press books are distributed via our partner, Amsterdam University Press (AUP). AUP send invitations to review every Arc book to Speculum and The Medieval Review. These journals ensure reviewers are lined up, provide a quick turnaround, and send the published reviews to us so that they are readily available once published.
Once your book has been published, if you would like to invite other journals to review your book, please send a list of email addresses of relevant journals to [email protected] and they will organise a publication announcement and digital review copies for you.
Unsolicited requests direct from journals are examined critically and individually. The vast majority of journals receive a digital copy of your book but Arc will consider a printed copy if a sound case is made. We do insist (to prevent wastage) that the journal already has a named reviewer lined up and that they undertake to send us a copy of the published review. Note that beyond the delays incurred in shipping a physical copy, Brexit customs regulations now make sending copies to the EU expensive and complex.