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This is the first book to discuss the sustainable development of digital scholarly information in three key aspects: economic, social and environmental sustainability. Taking as its starting point the premise that digital information systems and services form the backbone of a knowledge society and digital economy, this book explores the challenges of ensuring sustainability of information in an evolving digital world.

Information retrieval --- Information systems --- Higher education --- Library management --- Electronic information resources --- Digital preservation. --- Sustainability. --- Academic writing --- Learning and scholarship --- Scholarly publishing. --- Management. --- Management --- Electronic information resources. --- Computer files --- Digital curation --- Digital media --- Electronic preservation --- Preservation of digital information --- Preservation of materials --- Digital information resources --- Digital resources (Information resources) --- Electronic information sources --- Electronic resources (Information resources) --- Information resources --- Managements --- Conservation and restoration --- Preservation --- Academic publishing --- Publishers and publishing --- Erudition --- Scholarship --- Civilization --- Intellectual life --- Education --- Research --- Scholars --- Learned writing --- Scholarly writing --- Authorship --- Sustainability science --- Human ecology --- Social ecology

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An authoritative and truly global exploration of current research in digital libraries. Internationally-renowned academics discuss what has been achieved with digital libraries and what we can expect in the future through the prism of research. The increasing number of digital libraries in all sectors and the pressure of ever demanding and diverse user needs has encouraged development of user-centred interfaces, intelligent search and retrieval capabilities, effective metadata description and contents organisation. In addition to the two editors who are renowned for their works in digital library research, this collection brings together established international names in the field such as Elena Maceviciute, Suliman Hawamdeh, Chris Yang, Stefan Gradmann, Michael Fraser, Tom Wilson and Ali Shiri to analyse these developments in relation to users and information access and the future trends and challenges that practitioners will face. Providing an invaluable resource for LIS students, academics and researchers interested in digital libraries and access, it is also a useful introduction to developments for those developing, managing or just starting out with digital libraries.