Digital Libraries and Information Access : Research Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9781856048217 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 256 str.

G. G. Chowdhury

Opis

The increasing number of digital libaries in all sectors and the pressure of ever demanding and diverse user needs has encouraged development of user-centred interfaces. This volume explores what has been acheived in this field and what we can expect in the future through the prism of research.

Spis treści

Foreword - Christine L. Borgman
1. Digital libraries and information access: introduction - Gobinda Chowdhury and Schubert Foo
2. The design and architecture of digital libraries - Hussein Suleman
3. Metadata and crowdsourced data for access and interaction in digital library user interfaces - Ali Shiri and Dinesh Rathi
4. Information access - Gobinda Chowdhury and Schubert Foo
5. Collaborative search and retrieval in digital libraries - Dion Hoe-Lian Goh
6. The social element of digital libraries - Natalie Pang
7. Towards socially inclusive digital libraries - Chern Li Liew
8. Users’ interactions with digital libraries - T. D. Wilson and Elena Macevičiūtė
9. Digital libraries and scholarly information: technology, market, users and usage - Jeonghyun Kim, Angel Durr and Suliman Hawamdeh
10. Digital libraries and open access - Gobinda Chowdhury and Schubert Foo
11. iSTEM: integrating subject categories from multiple repositories - Christopher C. Yang and Jung-ran Park
12. The usability of digital libraries - Sudatta Chowdhury
13. Intellectual property and digital libraries - Michael Fraser
14. Digital preservation: interoperability ad modum - Milena Dobreva and Raivo Ruusalepp
15. Digital libraries and information access: research trends - Gobinda Chowdhury and Schubert Foo