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Digitisation Perspectives

Editors:

  1. Ruth Rikowski

    1. Chandos Publishing, Oxford

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  • Written by experts, Gives a modern approach, Comprehensive in Scope

Part of the book series: Educational Futures (EDUFUT, volume 46)

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. Background and Overview to Digitisation and Digital Libraries

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Rise of Digitization

      • Melissa M. Terras
      Pages 3-20

    3. Digital Libraries and Digitisation

      • Ruth Rikowski
      Pages 21-41

    4. Digital Knowledge Resources

      • M. Paul Pandian
      Pages 43-63

    5. Digitisation

      • Ruth Rikowski
      Pages 65-86

  3. Digitisation and Higher Education

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 87-87
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    2. Improving Student Mental Models in a New University Information Setting

      • Alan Rosling, Kathryn Littlemore
      Pages 89-101

    3. Electronic Theses and Dissertations

      • Susan Copeland
      Pages 103-113

    4. Learning Systems in Post-Statutory Education

      • Paul Catherall
      Pages 115-130

    5. Going Digital

      • Isaac Hunter Dunlap
      Pages 131-144

  4. Digitisation and Inequalities

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 145-145
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    2. Hegemony and the Web

      • Tony Ward
      Pages 147-166

    3. Digital Library

      • Dieu Hack-Polay
      Pages 167-177

    4. Critical Perspectives on Digitising Africa

      • Leburn Rose
      Pages 179-188

  5. Digital Libraries, Reference Services and Citation Indexing

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 189-189
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  6. Digitisation of Rare, Valued and Scholarly Works

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 227-227
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    2. Building the Virtual Scriptorium

      • Tatiana Nikolova-Houston, Ron Houston
      Pages 229-244
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About this book

This book examines various views and perspectives on digitisation. Topics covered include electronic theses, search engine technology, digitisation in Africa, citation indexing, reference services, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, new media and scholarly publishing. The final chapter explores virtual libraries, and poses some interesting questions for possible futures. The book will be of particular interest to information professionals, educators, librarians, academics and I.T. and knowledge experts.
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Chandos Publishing, Oxford

    Ruth Rikowski

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Digitisation Perspectives

  • Editors: Ruth Rikowski

  • Series Title: Educational Futures

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-299-3

  • Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: SensePublishers 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-6091-299-3Published: 22 July 2011

  • Series ISSN: 2214-9864

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-9872

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXII, 328

  • Topics: Educational Philosophy

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