Incentives Require sufficient incentives to induce those responsible for preservation to act Diffusion of preservation responsibilities creates potential gap between preservation objectives and incentives: –Responsibility (and legal right) to preserve often extends beyond collecting institutions –Decision-makers responsible for preservation may not be stakeholders in preservation Ability to share access can diminish incentive to share cost: –Preservation of shared resource by one institution ensures access for all institutions –Little incentive to be the one institution that takes on responsibility (and costs) of preservation Incentives to preserve becoming less assured
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