Preservation of ejournals - how far have we come?

Earlier this year (2008) Portico and Ithaka, with encouragement from the Portico Advisory Committee, surveyed library directors to fnd out their opinions on digital preservation of ejournals and to gauge their feelings on progress to date.
The resulting report, titled Digital preservation of e-journals in 2008: Urgent Action revisited, found that library directors believe that ejournal preservation is important. However, thinking it's important, and taking action to ensure it happens are two different things. Libraries were not involved in a preservation program for a range of reasons - wide range of opinions on how urgent the need is, wanting to wait, e-preservation is seen as complicated, who should do it, and competing priorities meaning that preservation has not become a strategic budgeting priority.
In conclusion, some questions were asked:
- who is responsible?
- when will the responsibility for such preservation be spread more widely than amongst the "trailblazers"?
- if libraries wait too long, will they run out of options?
- what can we do to simplify the preservation landscape?
- where does preservation sit in the priority scale?