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The Twilight of Digitization Is Now
- Journal of Scholarly Publishing
- University of Toronto Press
- Volume 35, Number 1, October 2003
- pp. 52-62
- 10.1353/scp.2004.0002
- Article
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Contemporary wisdom holds that the scholarly community is in transition from a paper-based knowledge system to an electronically based system. 'Twilight' argues that this transition is not sustainable and that constraints on energy resources and other necessary resources will arrest digitization in the not-distant future. Thus, archives in physical formats, not digitized archives, are essential to preserve the scholarly record.