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  After isolating the British Library's contribution (1,187,746 assets), this number comes to 119,275 assets.

 In total, 50 UK GLAMs (comprising 62.5% of UK instances) each publish fewer than 100 open assets accounting for 1,029 (or 0.009%) of the total volume in the UK. These 50 UK GLAMs release open assets across a number of platforms, but not their own websites. Most publish via Art UK (marked below as *, with exceptions specified

Of these 50 GLAMS, 12 are public domain compliant, releasing a total of 268 assets to the public domain. The remaining 38 GLAMS claim new rights and publish a total of 761 open compliant assets.

The research recorded how the 195 GLAMS make collections available on their websites and coded findings by the following categories:


 * No collections. Websites have no digital collections, even for illustrative purposes.
 * Searchable catalogue only. Websites host a searchable catalogue of records only.
 * Illustrative collections only. Websites use images of collections to illustrate the website and advertise the types of collections or objects available onsite.
 * Searchable digital collections. Websites host a searchable catalogue of records accompanied by images and other media.

This distribution is discussed further below. A Culture of Copyright