Special Issue on Digital Archives and Innovative Services

摘要

The International Journal of Library and Information Services is a platform of library professionals as well as software professionals to share their research work and innovative ideas in this field. The objectives behind publishing this Special Issue was to focus on how academic as well as research libraries are offering digital library services to cope up with the changing needs of the user. This issue aimed to explore digitization, copyright issues, institutional repository and archives management as a challenge in front of all library professionals. Many open source software being used in libraries and many new features are being introduced in library automation and digital library software. Open access publishing and open archive initiatives are adopted by many top university libraries to support research. Keeping these issues in mind editor has given very relevant topics like Digital Library software like DSpace, Greenstone, Open Source software like ABCD, Koha, etc., Content Management Systems like Drupal, Joomla, Wordpress, ABCD; Open Access initiatives like open archives, repositories, online publishing by many top universities, copyright issues while giving online document delivery services and publishing or giving open access to in-house published resources, e-discovery and single search engines for multiple databases and future trends, challenges and opportunities in the digital environment.