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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
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Professor Gobinda Chowdhury BSc Hons, MSc, PhD, FCLIP is Professor in Information Science at iSchool@northumbria, and Head of the Department of Mathematics and Information Sciences at Northumbria University. Before joining Northumbria University he was a Professor and Director of the Centre for Information and Knowledge Management at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. For over 25 years he has worked as an academic and researcher in information science in different parts of the world including Asia, Africa, Europe and Australia. For the past few years he has been actively involved in the iSchools activities. Professor Chowdhury has written or edited 15 books and over 150 research papers.
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An authoritative and truly global exploration of current research in digital libraries and information access by internationally renowned academics.
