[fl4tul4]

> Scientific papers and processes that are lost forever as publishers fail, their websites shut down.

I don't think the big scientific publishers (now, in our time) will ever fail, they are RICH!

[Legend2440]

That means nothing. Big companies fail all the time. There is no guarantee any of them will be here in 50 years, let alone 500.

[thayne]

Perhaps a shorter term risk is the publishers consider some papers less profitable, so they stop preserving them.

[bookofjoe]

So was the Roman Empire