Open Access and Digital Libraries

Open Access and Digital Libraries
Author: Lynne M. Rudasill
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2013-04-30
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110281023

The social sciences have made fundamental contributions to the understanding of the economic, political and social life of nations in the past century. Social science libraries now have an important role to play in the context of the information society as significant sources of academic and social knowledge. This work provides information on the development and use of digital resources in the social sciences emphasizing best practices; an articulation of some of the problems presented to providing these resources; and a view to the use of these resources to support sustainable development.

Aspects of Digital Libraries - Digitization, Standards, Open Access, Repositories and User’s Skills

Aspects of Digital Libraries - Digitization, Standards, Open Access, Repositories and User’s Skills
Author: Liat Klain Gabbay
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2024-06-12
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1837698449

In today’s digital era, the emergence of digital libraries, collections, and repositories stands as a significant advancement. Across various organizations, there’s a notable shift toward digitization driven by both technological advancements and the proliferation of vast amounts of data, texts, artworks, and other collections. With information volumes reaching unprecedented levels, the imperative to organize it in digital formats becomes apparent. This digital transformation has given rise to a pervasive digital culture, particularly evident in academic libraries, museums, and nonprofit organizations. This culture profoundly influences how information is accessed, utilized, and organized. The book addresses key aspects of this digital paradigm, including digitization processes, open access principles, and the protocols and standards governing the utilization of digital information. It examines the broader landscape of digital libraries, repositories, and collections found in galleries and museums. Moreover, the book explores the evolving skill sets required by users in adapting to these digital advancements, as well as the standards necessary for implementing digital organizational structures. By taking a comprehensive view, it highlights both the advantages and challenges posed by these digital developments, offering insights into their multifaceted impacts on contemporary society.

Digital Libraries and Information Access

Digital Libraries and Information Access
Author: G. G. Chowdhury
Publisher: Facet Publishing
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2012-09-21
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1856048217

An authoritative and truly global exploration of current research in digital libraries. Internationally-renowned academics discuss what has been achieved with digital libraries and what we can expect in the future through the prism of research. The increasing number of digital libraries in all sectors and the pressure of ever demanding and diverse user needs has encouraged development of user-centred interfaces, intelligent search and retrieval capabilities, effective metadata description and contents organization. In addition to the two editors who are renowned for their works in digital library research, this collection brings together established international names in the field to analyse these developments in relation to users and information access and the future trends and challenges that practitioners will face. Readership: LIS students, academics and researchers interested in digital libraries and access and those developing, managing or just starting out with digital libraries

Open Access to STM Information

Open Access to STM Information
Author: Anthi Katsirikou
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2011
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110253283

This book contains a plethora of different viewpoints and research results from all over the world, bringing them together to provide a global perspectiveon the various issues that comprise "open access". Topics include copyright, best practices and management, open access and society, repositories, journals, publications and publishing, services and technology, quality andevaluation. The book offers a holistic focus on open access and can serve as a useful learning tool for students and professionals.

Digital Libraries for Open Knowledge

Digital Libraries for Open Knowledge
Author: Eva Méndez
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2018-09-04
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3030000664

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, TPDL 2018, held in Porto, Portugal, in September 2018. The 51 full papers, 17 short papers, and 13 poster and tutorial papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 81 submissions. The general theme of TPDL 2018 was Digital Libraries for Open Knowledge. The papers present a wide range of the following topics: Metadata, Entity Disambiguation, Data Management, Scholarly Communication, Digital Humanities, User Interaction, Resources, Information Extraction, Information Retrieval, Recommendation.

Digital Libraries

Digital Libraries
Author: Sadia Vancauwenbergh
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2021-06-30
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1839682000

Over the past decades, traditional academic library environments have transformed into digital libraries. This has resulted in many challenges for libraries in terms of the reinvention of libraries’ roles and organizations, the skill sets of librarians, and library infrastructure. At the same time, this profound transformation has opened the door to many new avenues, such as the support and advancement of Open Science. This book offers insights into the transformation of traditional library environments to digital libraries and details how digital libraries can contribute to Open Science, in particular to Open Access, FAIR and Open Data, and Open Education, by describing methods, criteria, strengths, and weaknesses as well as applications.

Becoming a Digital Library

Becoming a Digital Library
Author: Susan J. Barnes
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2003-11-04
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0824757750

This excellent reference traces the construction and maintenance of the digital collections and services that have been available day in and day out to users worldwide for more than a decade. It examines applicable guidelines for any library looking to build and manage systems, conduct and evaluate projects, and scout new directions for mainstreaming and hybridizing the building of a digital library. Including contributions from seasoned experts in specializations such as staffing, collection development, and technology project management for digital libraries, Becoming a Digital Library discusses the techniques for finding and training the right people to build a digital library.

Digital Libraries: Supporting Open Science

Digital Libraries: Supporting Open Science
Author: Paolo Manghi
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2019-01-14
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3030112268

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 15th Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries, IRCDL 2019, held in Pisa, Italy, in January/February 2019. The 22 full papers and 5 short papers presented were carefully selected from 42 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on information retrieval, digital libraries and archives, information integration, open science, and data mining.

Discover Digital Libraries

Discover Digital Libraries
Author: Iris Xie
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 390
Release: 2016-07-26
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0124201059

Discover Digital Libraries: Theory and Practice is a book that integrates both research and practice concerning digital library development, use, preservation, and evaluation. The combination of current research and practical guidelines is a unique strength of this book. The authors bring in-depth expertise on different digital library issues and synthesize theoretical and practical perspectives relevant to researchers, practitioners, and students. The book presents a comprehensive overview of the different approaches and tools for digital library development, including discussions of the social and legal issues associated with digital libraries. Readers will find current research and the best practices of digital libraries, providing both US and international perspectives on the development of digital libraries and their components, including collection, digitization, metadata, interface design, sustainability, preservation, retrieval, and evaluation of digital libraries. - Offers an overview of digital libraries and the conceptual and practical understanding of digital libraries - Presents the lifecycle of digital library design, use, preservation and evaluation, including collection development, digitization of static and multimedia resources, metadata, digital library development and interface design, digital information searching, digital preservation, and digital library evaluation - Synthesizes current research and the best practices of digital libraries, providing both US and international perspectives on the development of digital libraries - Introduces new developments in the area of digital libraries, such as large-scale digital libraries, social media applications in digital libraries, multilingual digital libraries, digital curation, linked data, rapid capture, guidelines for the digitization of multimedia resources - Highlights the impact, challenges, suggestions for overcoming these challenges, and trends of present and future development of digital librariesOffers a comprehensive bibliography for each chapter

The Emergence of Digital Libraries -- Research and Practices

The Emergence of Digital Libraries -- Research and Practices
Author: Kulthida Tuamsuk
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 449
Release: 2014-10-09
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 331912823X

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries, ICADL 2014, held in Chiang Mai, Thailand, in November 2014. The 20 full papers, 19 short papers and 9 poster papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 141 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on digital preservation and archiving; digital repositories and tools; scholarly documents repositories; metadata and ontologies; linked data and knowledge sharing; digital books and e-books; digital libraries usage and applications; data management and classification; information retrieval and search methods; user skills and experiences.