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The aim of this paper is to discuss the following aspects of digitisation: HEDS and its services, with focus on how HEDS fits into the overall digital libraries initiatives of the UK; digitisation projects and resources in Europe and elsewhere; myths surrounding digitisation; and the future of digitisation in the UK. Many of the themes of this talk begin with ‘it depends’. For example: it depends on what you want from the information content of the originals; it depends on the balance between costs and benefit goals; it depends on the nature of the original material itself.

How to Cite: Tanner, S. and Robinson, B., 1998. The Higher Education Digitisation Service (HEDS): Access in the Future, Preserving the Past. Serials, 11(2), pp.127–131. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1629/11127