Purpose – In this study, the authors use the term “e-quality” to refer to information quality, system quality and service quality. This study aims to focus on e-quality, exploring and comparing users’ perceptions of digital libraries and virtual communities in the hope that the results of this study can help lead to better understanding of the exact nature of e-quality as perceived by users. De...

The Handbook of Research on Digital Libraries: Design, Development, and Impact is the single academic reference work to provide comprehensive coverage of digital libraries. Through predictions of future trends, examinations of techniques and technologies, and focuses on users, interactions, and experiences, this in-depth collection provides developers and scholars with an extensive collection o...

Current digital libraries and online bibliographies share several properties with the Web and thus also share some of its problems. Faceted classifications and Semantic Web technologies are explored as possible approaches to improving digital libraries and alleviating their respective shortcomings. We describe the possibilities of using faceted navigation and its personalization in digital libr...

The Alexandria Digital Library (ADL) Project has developed digital library services and collections to support the organization, access, and use of collections of information with the use of geospatial reference [1]. The Project's operational component is the Alexandria Digital Library (ADL), developed under Phase I of NSF's First Digital Libraries Initiative and now operational as part of the ...

This paper introduces digital scholarship: aprocess inwhich individuals perform all scholarly work electronically, working entirely with digital media. A proposal is made for patron-augmenteddigital libraries (PADLs): a class of digital libraries designed to support the digital scholarship of its patrons. PADLs not only provide facilities for search and retrieval of library artefacts, but also ...

by Jeffrey Beall [email protected] University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, Downtown Denver Campus Abstract This paper describes the main types of data quality errors that occur in digital libraries, both in full-text objects and in metadata. Studying these errors is important because they can block access to online documents and because digital libraries should eli...

As they are gradually becoming mature, digital libraries are being put more frequently under a magnifying glass in order to be evaluated. Some of the world's leading information scientist like T. Saracevic (Rutgers University, USA) claims that it is too early to evaluate quality of existing digital libraries as they are not yet taken their final shape and there is much to be expected from such ...

Preserving long-term access to digital information resources is one of the key challenges facing libraries and information centers today. The University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries has entered into partnership agreements with federal and state agencies to ensure permanent storage and public access to a variety of government information sources. As digital resource preservation encompasses a ...

This study is a description of how university students perceive digital library services, or the integration of digital library elements within the traditional or hybrid library services in academic libraries. These services were identified through a preliminary study that evaluated the digital services offered by twenty university libraries. The top five university libraries with most services...

Digital Libraries are one of the most common web services for information seeking. Their main advantage is also their main disadvantages: digital libraries are designed with a global approach for everyone which implies that all users are presented with the same interface. Previous studies have proved to help users search information by matching the interface to their preferences. In this contex...