Libraries today buy, subscribe, license and accumulate information in an unprecedented array of content categories or publication types, and in a rapidly proliferating mix of formats (digital as well as print). There is a ...

Presentation made for a workshop titles "Knowledge Communities: Rising to the Performance Challenges" conducted at Kaula Lumpur Convention Centre, Kaula Lumpur, 18-20 February 2008.

The Internet represents a totally new environment for the exchange of schlarly literature and it requires new enabling technologies to protect both customers and publishers. Systems will have to be developed to authenticate ...