after passing more than one decade of appearance of digital libraries in iran, they couldn’t meet their real mission, which is responding to audience needs. surely, this problem is affected by potentially and real factors. so this research wants to recognize resistant factors and driving factors by recourse oriented approach, and then to fit them in integrated model.research method which we app...

This paper reviews how usability has been defined in the context of the digital library, what methods have been applied and their applicability, and proposes an evaluation model and a suite of instruments for evaluating usability for academic digital libraries. The model examines effectiveness, efficiency, satisfaction, and learnability. It is found that there exists an interlocking relationshi...

Digital libraries are frequently treated just as a new method of storage of digitized artifacts, with all consequences of transferring long-established ways of dealing with physical objects into the digital world. Such attitude improves availability, but often neglects other opportunities offered by global and immediate access, virtuality and linking — as easy as never before. The article prese...

With the increase of digital information practices (e.g. online search, desktop publishing, electronic reference management, etc.) in the academic context, printed books are sometimes cumbersome to integrate into the digital workflow. We present ResearchSherlock, an Android app that allows the user to quickly gather bibliographic information for a printed book by scanning its shelfmark or ISBN....

After an overview of theworldwidemathematical journals ecosystem, we summarise some of the hopes and fears raised by the digital environment. We then review the underlying principles and main features of some of the projects launched by Cellule MathDoc that aim at settling robust foundations and giving wider access to academic mathematical research journals. In turn, they could prefigure some b...

• Digital libraries' roots can be traced back to 1965 when Libraries of the Future by J. C. R. Licklider was beginning to imagine a world of broad access to knowledge. • Automated machines that run behind the scenes at digital libraries came into existence in the 1960s. • You could call Lexis-Nexis a digital library which emerged in the mid-1980s. • However, what most would call a "digital libr...