Both the National Library of Australia and the State Library of Victoria are operating on the basis that anything that is publicly available on the Internet is published.
Online publishing is different from print publishing.
Publications are often mounted on the Internet without the quality filtering mechanism provided by editors and publishers. Consequently, standards are much more variable than they are in print. Distinctions between traditional categories of documents such as books, serials, manuscripts, working drafts and organisational records are blurred in the electronic environment. The potential volume of material to be dealt with is overwhelming in relation to the resources available. A high degree of selectivity is therefore necessary.