Digital Libraries and Information Access: Research Perspectives

Offering an authoritative and truly global exploration of current research in digital libraries, in this book a blue-ribbon team of internationally-renowned academics discuss what has been achieved with digital libraries and what we can expect in the future. Equally informative for LIS students, academics, researchers, and practitioners alike, this collection includes in-depth consideration of such topics as

• Design and architecture of digital libraries
• Metadata and crowdsourced data for access and interaction in digital library user interfaces
• Collaborative search and retrieval in digital libraries
• Towards socially inclusive digital libraries
• Users interactions with digital libraries
• iSTEM: integrating subject categories from multiple repositories 
• Intellectual property and digital libraries

Providing an invaluable resource for LIS students, academics and researchers interested in digital libraries and access, it is also a useful introduction to developments for those developing, managing or just starting out with digital libraries.