A brief update on Ovid’s forthcoming enhancements to the Ovid platform, followed by a presentation on Books@Ovid which will include a review of the number and types of health sciences and medical electronic titles ...

This introductory workshop is intended for anyone concerned with subject access to digital libraries. It provides a bridge by presenting methods of subject access as treated in an information studies program for those ...

Abstract. In this paper, we investigate the issues of performance management in large scale, autonomous and federated digital library systems, performing the tasks of indexing, searching and retrieval of information objects. ...

The preservation and representation of folklore collections is a basic priority for every country because they are valuable for studying the customs and the tradition of specific groups of people and places. However, for ...

As an information provider to academic institutions worldwide, ProQuest Information and Learning (formerly known as UMI) has the aim of facilitating and improving access to information via microfilm, CD-ROM and the World ...

Purpose - This paper aims to describe how approaches such as semantic based query rewritings and FRBR work entities composition could solve existing problems and improve the overall behavior of a mediated based meta-search ...

Annotation plays a major role in a user’s reading of a document: from elementary school students making notes on text books to professors marking up their latest research papers. A common place for annotations to appear ...

The purpose of this paper is to present the current situation regarding open access and institutional repositories (IRs) in Greece. Design/methodology/approach -- This paper reports on the development of IRs in Greece and ...

The article discusses the theoretical and practical principles of the methodology and the criteria used for the evaluation of paper conservation treatments. A method for the accelerated aging of the samples is employed in ...