The impermanence of magnetic media has led to a concern in the library and information community with the fate of the fast-increasing amount of information which is electronically published. Different approaches from libraries, digital mapping, video archiving, archives and data archives, office management, and the world of commercial publishing offer insights into the kinds of policy which might be adopted to deal with this problem. Such policies are likely to need to involve publishers and other institutions, as well as national library and archive institutions.
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