Digital sustainability is the next great challenge for research libraries.
An example of this new species of scholarly publishing is the MIT Press' Cognet, launched in September 2000, to create a community for researchers and scholars in cognitive and brain sciences. Other scholarly publishers, such as Columbia University Press and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, have created similar dynamic publications in an environment that is experimental and evolving. Working with publisher partners, the MIT Libraries will explore and assess possible strategies and technologies, and will plan a model for a safe repository for this new form of scholarly communication.