Re: Duke University Press to Archive e-Books with Portico

[Sandy Thatcher <sgt3@psu.edu>]

While this is an admirable initiative in many ways, I wonder: since,
presumably, there will be print copies produced for every book in
this collection, won't they really outlast any electronic version? if
printed on acid-free paper, they should have a useful lifetime of
some 500 years if "preserved" under the proper conditions. Will
Portico be around in 500 years? How many iterations of the electronic
format will these books have gone through in that time?



>Duke University Press to Archive e-Books with Portico
>
>Duke University Press will be archiving electronic books from the
>e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection with Portico in a long-term
>strategy to preserve electronic scholarly content. Duke
>University Press will be the second publisher, after Elsevier, to
>archive its entire collection of e-books with Portico.
>

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