Long-Term Preservation of Digital Publications

Electronic formats are the latest in a long line of media that mankind has used to record knowledge and experience. Gradually the amount of e-books has increased and on Internet a vast amount of digital information is being published. Electronic publishing offer great opportunities for dissemination and access but at the same time, it imposes a new challenge on libraries and other deposit institutes in charge of preserving a country's cultural heritage. The challenges that have to be addressed are preservation of electronic publication and at the same time, an increasing attention is also paid to the problem of long-term digital preservation of electronic publication. This paper attempts to better understand the challenges, identify the background of the preserving electronic publication and discusses about the solutions of long term preservation and accessibility of electronic publications.