Includes bibliographical references and index.

Digital libraries and information access : introduction / Gobinda Chowdhury and Schubert Foo -- The design and architecture of digital libraries / Hussein Suleman -- Metadata and crowdsourced data for access and interaction in digital library user interfaces / Ali Shiri and Dinesh Rathi -- Information access / Gobinda Chowdhury and Schubert Foo -- Collaborative search and retrieval in digital libraries / Dion Hoe-Lian Goh -- The social element of digital libraries / Natalie Pang -- Towards socially inclusive digital libraries / Chern Li Liew -- Users' interactions with digital libraries / T.D. Wilson and Elena Macevičiūtė -- Digital libraries and scholarly information : technology, market, users and usage / Jeonghyun Kim, Angel Durr and Suliman Hawamdeh -- Digital libraries and open access / Gobinda Chowdhury and Schubert Foo -- iSTEM : integrating subject categories from multiple repositories / Christopher C. Yang and Jung-ran Park / The usability of digital libraries / Sudatta Chowdhury -- Intellectual property and digital libraries / Michael Fraser -- Digital preservation : interoperability ad modum / Milena Dobreva and Raivo Ruusalepp -- Digital libraries and information access : research trends / Gobinda Chowdhury and Schubert Foo.