Paper, for all its drawbacks, has one big advantage over electronic media — it can last for thousands of years. The main obstacle to abandoning print journals is the worry that millions of 'digital objects' might be unreadable in. just a few years because of hardware and software obsolescence. The problems are mind-boggling. Compact discs only a few years old are often unreadable by new computer systems, and software codes are changing rapidly. The hyperlinked digital content of web material poses even greater problems. How can working links be maintained between text, graphics, audio and video — and who should be responsible?
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