...Surendran Cherukodan; Humayoon Kabir S Purpose – India occupies second position among the countries that have adopted DSpace open source software for institutional repositories (IRs)/digital libraries (DLs). The purpose of this paper is to examine the reasons for DSpace being preferred over other...

...Georgios Gkoumas; Fotis Lazarinis Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to evaluate open source software (OSS) for digital libraries and collection management and to propose different utilization scenarios based on the characteristics of the tools. Design/methodology/approach – The tools...

..., and found, among others, that the “growth rate” of Indian earth literature decreased from 0.65 in 1978 to 0.07 in 1988. India Digital libraries Social Network Analysis Co-authorship networks Earth science Research collaborations There is an ongoing debate on what really constitutes...

...Byung-Won On; Gyu Sang Choi; Soo-Mok Jung Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to collect and understand the nature of real cases of author name variants that have often appeared in bibliographic digital libraries (DLs) as a case study of the name authority control problem in DLs. Design...

...Egbert de Smet Purpose – Although the new J-ISIS software from UNESCO, based on Berkeley DB and Lucene technology, complies with some of the technical requirements as seen necessary for digital library applications, an easy way of building collections so far was not available. The purpose...

...Tanja Merčun Edited by G.G.   Chowdhury and Schubert   Foo . Digital Libraries and Information Access: Research Perspectives . London : Facet Publishing   2012 . 235 pp. , ISBN: 978‐1‐85604‐821‐7   £49.95 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 --> Digital...

...Jan Pisanski While a broad variety of digital libraries is indeed presented through a thoroughly practical perspective that in large part mirrors reality in the field, the focus of the book is not always clear. Signs of another limiting aspect, the length of individual chapters, are omnipresent...

... libraries Digital libraries E‐research Library automation Sub Saharan Africa The University of Botswana was founded in 1972 in Gaborone, as part of the University of Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland. It was officially inaugurated in 1982 as the only university in a country with a current...

... 2011 Digital libraries Journal recommendation Local impact factor Decision making Serials With the increasing importance of higher education, educational institutions consistently make efforts to provide an increasingly rich research environment; one of the most important resources...

...Faranak Mohsenzadeh; Alireza Isfandyari‐Moghaddam Purpose The present research aims to identify the difficulties and obstacles for developing digital libraries in the seven regional branches of Islamic Azad University (IAU), Iran, and to study the status of librarians' skills and education...

...Catherine Xu Edited by Mel   Collier . Business Planning for Digital Libraries . Leuven : Leuven University Press   2010 . 238 pp. , ISBN: 978‐90‐5867‐837‐9   £54.50 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 --> Library operations and services Digital libraries...

... the collections and some important observations from this study. M. Krishnamurthy can be contacted at: mkrishna_murthy@hotmail.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Digital libraries Digital storage Universities Research organizations Communications India IRs...

... © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 --> Library operations and services Digital libraries Blogs Blogging has become one of the most popular uses of the internet. A blog is a web log, or an online public diary or journal that is written for others to read. There are many reasons...

... Library Project (www.ulib.org/) set up by Carnegie Mellon University in the USA and has developed the infrastructure required for carrying out digitisation projects: The National Mission for Manuscripts of India defined a manuscript as: Digital libraries Digital storage National cultures...

... in libraries are divided into two main application areas: digital library (DL), including agent‐based DL projects, multi‐agent architecture for DLs, intelligent agents for distributed heterogeneous information retrieval and agent support to information search process in DLs; and services in traditional...

...A.M. Cox The foreword is by Dame Lynne Brindley. The first two chapters are by the editors. Chapter 1 is about trends in how services are delivered. Chapter 2 identifies “key themes”: the costs and funding of digital libraries. Reg Carr sets out some history in Chapter 3. Chapter 4 is by Derek...

...Long Xiao Purpose The paper aims to provide an overall methodology and case study for the innovation and extension of a digital library, especially the service system. Design/methodology/approach Based on the three‐dimensional structure theory of the information service industry, this paper...

...Mirosław Górny; John Catlow; Rafał Lewandowski Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe the state of development of Polish digital libraries. Design/methodology/approach The paper describes the establishment of the first digital library in Poland, the creation of the Wielkopolska...

...A.M. Cox Edited by G.   Tsakonas and C.   Papatheodoru . Evaluation of Digital Libraries: An Insight into Useful Applications and Methods . Oxford : Chandos   2009 . 275 pp. , ISBN: 978‐1‐84334‐484‐1   £49.50 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010...

...Ana Kovacevic; Vladan Devedzic; Viktor Pocajt Purpose This paper aims to address the problem of enhancing the selection of titles offered by a digital library, by analysing the differences in these titles when they are cited by local authors in their publications and when they are listed...