From an ARL-Ithaka report, Current Models of Digital Scholarly Communication, available from: http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/current-models-report.pdf:
Although preservation was not the subject of this study, it seems clear that librarians can initiate and contribute to conversations about the long-term preservation of new digital works. Preservation did not seem to be a top-of-mind concern for many of the smaller projects we investigated, and proactive library steps may be valuable in raising and addressing this unrecognized need (35).
