Ann J. Wolpert,
Director of Libraries at MIT, said: "Digital sustainability is
the next great challenge for research libraries. It is
especially important to begin resolving the archiving issues
that are inherent in these multifaceted, dynamic tools while
they are still
evolving."
An example of this new species of
scholarly publishing is the MIT Press' Cognet, launched in
September 2000, to create a community for researchers and
scholars in cognitive and brain sciences. Other scholarly
publishers, such as Columbia University Press and the American
Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), have
created similar dynamic publications in an environment that is
experimental and evolving.
|
|
Working with publisher partners, the
MIT Libraries will explore and assess possible strategies and
technologies, and will plan a model for a safe repository for
this new form of scholarly communication.
|
