Skip to content

The Preservation Needs in the Gulf & Middle East

This short survey (2–3 minutes) aims to understand digital content (journals, books, media and other materials) preservation needs among publishers, libraries, and research organizations across the Gulf and Middle East.

Digital preservation is the process of maintaining and ensuring long-term access to digital content so it remains usable, readable, and authentic over time, even as technology changes.

Your responses will help shape future partnerships, and regional support initiatives for preserving knowledge for future generations . All responses are confidential.
1.Which best describes your organization?
2.Country
3.How concerned are you about the safety of your content?
4.What types of content does your organization need to preserve? (Select all that Apply)
5.Does your organization currently have a digital preservation solution?
6.Which solutions or approaches do you currently use? (Select all that Apply)
7.What are your biggest digital preservation challenges? (Select all that Apply)
8.What features are most important in a digital preservation solution? (Select all that apply)
9.Do you have plans to explore digital preservation solutions?
10.Is your organisation currently involved in, or interested in joining, regional collaboration initiatives for digital preservation?
11.What kind of support would help you most with digital preservation? (Select all that apply)
12.If you are interested in exploring preservation further, please share your contact email with us (optional)