Contents

Contents

Preface to the online edition

Preface to the published edition

1. Background

2. The Internet and the world wide web

3. Libraries and publishers

4. Innovation and research

5. People

6. Economic and legal issues

7. Access management and security

8. User interfaces and usability

9. Text

10. Information retrieval and descriptive metadata

11. Distributed information discovery

12. Object models

13. Repositories and archives

14. Digital libraries and electronic publishing today

Glossary