E-Books →Web-Scale Discovery Services Principles, Applications, Discovery Tools and Development Hypotheses

The great number of information sources now available and the changing habits of web users has led to the development of Web Scale Discovery Services (WSDS). The goal of these systems and techniques is to make catalogues, databases, institutional repositories, Open Access archives and other databases searchable and discoverable through a single point of access. The diffusion of systems and connections between data disseminated by libraries and published by other institutions poses a challenge to understanding discovery in the modern library.
Lays out the state-of-the-art in WSDS for contemporary libraries and institutionsPresents an innovative take on information retrieval and digital document managementGrounds thinking on a bibliographic basis, combining academic, practical and commercial aspectsOffers a perspective on how WSDS and discovery tools are seen and used internationallyProvides a version of culture and information literacy of relevance to a broad-range of cultural specialists