Science is an inherently collaborative enterprise. This trend has accelerated over the past
few decades. The Internet, in particular, has created new possibilities for the organization of …

In the 21st century, digital libraries will have a tremendous positive impact on education, as
sharing of learning resources increases, supporting not only distance education but also on …

Electronic commerce {E-commerce} is sharing business information, maintaining business
relationships, and conducting business transactions by means of telecommunications …

The explosion in Internet usage and huge government funding initiatives in digital libraries
have drawn attention to research on digital libraries. Whereas the traditional focus of digital …

Research and practice in digital libraries (DL) has exploded worldwide in the 1990s.
Substantial research funding has become available, libraries are actively involved in DL …

Digital library research efforts originating from library and information scientists have
focused on the technical development. While millions of dollars have been spent on building …

Will the emerging global information infrastructure (GII) create a revolution in communication
equivalent to that wrought by Gutenberg, or will the result be simply the evolutionary …

This series is directed to healthcare professionals who are leading the transfor-tion of health
care by using information and knowledge to advance the quality of patient care. Launched in …

This paper describes the development and application of visualisation techniques for users
to access and explore information in a digital library effectively and intuitively. Salient …

Digital libraries (DLs) are complex information systems and therefore demand formal
foundations lest development efforts diverge and interoperability suffers. In this article, we …