Digital Subscriptions and Content Management in the Internet Era. Information Access, Management and Exchange

Abstract

The internet offers the wealth of opportunity for the library fraternity and the user community in terms of content enrichment, information access, dissemination, sharing, management and manipulation. The information super highway, as it is rightly put, simultaneously act as content publisher, content holder and content dissemintor. During the recent past there has been a considerably shift in the library acquistions the world over, as the digital mdia dominates all its other counterparts in terms of its effectiveness, high-end flexibility, ease of access and dissemination. The plethora of formats, standards, protocols and platforms of the internet wonder world offer a wide spectrum of application to the user community which undoubtedly empowers them in their smooth journey to value-added and pin-pointed information at the stroke of a button or the click of a mouse. Today the three predominent forms of information source/ carrier are the print, CD/DVD/HDD and web. The latter two are on...