Pub Date : 2012-10-01DOI: 10.29085/9781856049764.009
T. Wilson, E. Maceviciute
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.29085/9781856049764.011
G. Chowdhury, S. Foo
Introduction Open access, defined simply as access to digital content free at the point of use, is a movement that began nearly two decades ago. It had its origins on the one hand in the exponential rise in the costs of scholarly information sources, especially journals, and on the other hand in the ease of publication and communication facilities that became available with the advent and proliferation of the internet and various new e-publishing models and standards. However, there is a bigger and altruistic reason behind the open access initiative. It has been driven by the need to provide better access to and sharing of information for research and scholarly activities. Open access facilitates research and scholarly activities in a number of ways, for example, by opening research and scholarly knowledge to all so that more researchers can access that knowledge build on it, thereby meeting another goal of less duplication of research efforts (JISC, 2011a). Open access benefits different stakeholders. Through open access: • researchers can reach a greater audience and thus their research can be more widely read and cited • institutions gain an enhanced reputation, and thus a better competitive edge, as their research becomes more visible • funding agencies see a greater return on their investment because the research funded by them can reach more people • publishers find that the impact of their journals increases as a result of greater access. Thus, although the open access movement was initiated to find an alternative to the problems facing academic and scholarly communities due to the soaring price of journals, it does more social good by promoting better and easier access to knowledge for everyone, not necessarily the small group of people who are associated with relatively rich institutions. However, it a kind of second-class, cut-price publishing route. It is simply a means to make research results freely available online to the whole research community. (JISC, 2011b) This chapter discusses the issues of open access and institutional repositories in the context of open access digital libraries. It briefly introduces the concept of Open Archives Initiative (OAI) and institutional repositories.
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.29085/9781856049764.008
C. Liew
{"title":"Towards socially inclusive digital libraries","authors":"C. Liew","doi":"10.29085/9781856049764.008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29085/9781856049764.008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":299478,"journal":{"name":"Digital Libraries and Information Access","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122785810","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.29085/9781856049764.016
G. Chowdhury, S. Foo
{"title":"Digital libraries and information access: research trends","authors":"G. Chowdhury, S. Foo","doi":"10.29085/9781856049764.016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29085/9781856049764.016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":299478,"journal":{"name":"Digital Libraries and Information Access","volume":"118 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124300394","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.29085/9781856049764.013
S. Chowdhury
{"title":"The usability of digital libraries","authors":"S. Chowdhury","doi":"10.29085/9781856049764.013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29085/9781856049764.013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":299478,"journal":{"name":"Digital Libraries and Information Access","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132635120","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.29085/9781856049764.002
G. Chowdhury, S. Foo
Introduction Systematic research and development activities in digital libraries began just over 20 years ago, and during this short period of time the field of digital libraries has progressed significantly. Over the past two decades a large number of digital libraries have appeared in different countries that cover different subjects, and disciplines from health to science, engineering to arts and culture, and others. Likewise, digital libraries have been designed, developed and used by a wide range of user communities that include school children, academics, scholars, scientists and the general public. Different types of content have been created and stored in these digital library repositories, ranging from basic digital objects like photographs, music and film to more research-oriented scholarly, scientific and research data. Alongside this, a significant amount of resources and efforts have been invested in research into digital libraries that have given rise to over 8000 journal and conference papers and a large number of books, theses, research reports and other kinds of scholarly publications. Experts from a number of disciplines, like library and information science, computer science, engineering, psychology, business management, law, economics and others, have joined hands to address and resolve a variety of research issues and challenges associated with digital libraries. The field of digital libraries has evolved significantly over the past two decades, both in terms of the nature and characteristics of research and in terms of the objectives and functionalities of digital libraries. While the first phase of digital library research in the early 1990s put the focus on building technologies for management of large volumes of digital information for remote access, this focus subsequently shifted to users, usability and impact studies, open access and so on. Subsequently, with the rapid progress in web and social networking technologies, the focus of digital library research has been extended to new and upcoming challenges such as semantic access, social information retrieval and social network analysis (see for details, Theng et al.
{"title":"Digital libraries and information access: introduction","authors":"G. Chowdhury, S. Foo","doi":"10.29085/9781856049764.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29085/9781856049764.002","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction Systematic research and development activities in digital libraries began just over 20 years ago, and during this short period of time the field of digital libraries has progressed significantly. Over the past two decades a large number of digital libraries have appeared in different countries that cover different subjects, and disciplines from health to science, engineering to arts and culture, and others. Likewise, digital libraries have been designed, developed and used by a wide range of user communities that include school children, academics, scholars, scientists and the general public. Different types of content have been created and stored in these digital library repositories, ranging from basic digital objects like photographs, music and film to more research-oriented scholarly, scientific and research data. Alongside this, a significant amount of resources and efforts have been invested in research into digital libraries that have given rise to over 8000 journal and conference papers and a large number of books, theses, research reports and other kinds of scholarly publications. Experts from a number of disciplines, like library and information science, computer science, engineering, psychology, business management, law, economics and others, have joined hands to address and resolve a variety of research issues and challenges associated with digital libraries. The field of digital libraries has evolved significantly over the past two decades, both in terms of the nature and characteristics of research and in terms of the objectives and functionalities of digital libraries. While the first phase of digital library research in the early 1990s put the focus on building technologies for management of large volumes of digital information for remote access, this focus subsequently shifted to users, usability and impact studies, open access and so on. Subsequently, with the rapid progress in web and social networking technologies, the focus of digital library research has been extended to new and upcoming challenges such as semantic access, social information retrieval and social network analysis (see for details, Theng et al.","PeriodicalId":299478,"journal":{"name":"Digital Libraries and Information Access","volume":"162 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131186024","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.29085/9781856049764.012
Christopher C. Yang, Jung-ran Park
{"title":"iSTEM: integrating subject categories from multiple repositories","authors":"Christopher C. Yang, Jung-ran Park","doi":"10.29085/9781856049764.012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29085/9781856049764.012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":299478,"journal":{"name":"Digital Libraries and Information Access","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129859635","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.29085/9781856049764.014
M. Fraser
{"title":"Intellectual property and digital libraries","authors":"M. Fraser","doi":"10.29085/9781856049764.014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29085/9781856049764.014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":299478,"journal":{"name":"Digital Libraries and Information Access","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129862092","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.29085/9781856049764.007
N. Pang
{"title":"The social element of digital libraries","authors":"N. Pang","doi":"10.29085/9781856049764.007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29085/9781856049764.007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":299478,"journal":{"name":"Digital Libraries and Information Access","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127430770","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.29085/9781856049764.003
H. Suleman
Digital Library Systems (DLSes) are software systems that support the operation of a digital library. As software systems, they are designed primarily to meet the needs of the target community using current best practices in software design and architecture. Digital libraries, like other disciplines, also asserts a set of design constraints that then affect the architectural choices for these digital library systems. Key constraints include: generality, usability by different communities, interoperability, extensibility, preservation and scalability. Individually, these are not unique to DLSes, but together they provide a framework for the development of specific DL architectures. The DELOS Digital Library Manifesto (Candela, et al, 2007) defines three actors in the architectural space of DLSes. The Digital Library System is the software system that manages data and provides services to users. The Digital Library focuses on the collection, users, processes and services; with a DLS as one of its operational systems. Finally, the Digital Library Management System (DLMS) is responsible for the management of the DLS, for example instantiation of collections and services. This chapter focuses on the DLS and, to a lesser degree, the DLMS. Core design considerations are first presented, followed by how these principles are realised in modern reusable and custom-built DLSes. The next section deals with how these individual systems are interconnected into larger networked DLSes, exemplified by international projects such as NDLTD. Scalability – how to deal with increasing sizes of data and increasing numbers of service requests – is then discussed. Finally, the chapter ends with research directions and a case study of an architecture designed for the developing world.
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