We examine and analyze the access policies of the digital collections of ten national libraries. We classify the implemented access policies, according to their characteristics, and we show their differences. We generalize ...

This paper presents a policy decision tree for digital information management in academic libraries. The decision tree is a policy guide, which offers alternative access and reproduction policy solutions according to the ...

We examine the disposition policies of Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) among three institutions: National Documentation Centre of Greece (NDC), Virginia Tech (VT) and West Virginia University (WVU) of USA. In ...

We examine the factors (creation type of the material, acquisition method, copyright ownership etc.) and the access and reproduction policies of the digital collections of ten leading university digital libraries. We ...

We analyze the use of the digital content of non-profit libraries, such as, national and academic, worldwide, as expressed through the restrictions of intellectual property and the knowledge management policies. We classify ...

Sensor data generated by pervasive applications are very diverse and are rarely described in standard or established formats. Consequently, one of the greatest challenges in pervasive systems is to integrate heterogeneous ...

Article included in a special issue devoted to the theme: Pioneering tomorrow's Internet. Selected papers from the TERENA Networking Conference 2000, Lisbon, Portugal, 22-25 May 2000. Digital library objects can be quite ...

The interest in the analysis of library user behaviour has been increasing rapidly since the advent of digital libraries and the Internet. In this context, the authors analyze the queries posed to a digital library and ...

The paper aims at exploring the existence of geospatial collections and the GIS services in Greek academic libraries through a research in their websites. The initial hypothesis is that Greek academic libraries are not ...

Εξετάζουμε και αναλύουμε τις πολιτικές πρόσβασης και αναπαραγωγής των ψηφιακών συλλογών δέκα πρωτοπόρων ακαδημαϊκών ψηφιακών βιβλιοθηκών, σύμφωνα με παράγοντες, όπως, ο τρόπος δημιουργίας του υλικού (ψηφιοποιημένο, ψηφιακό), ...