"Digital Libraries: Advancing Open Science" ed. by Sadia Vancauwenbergh

This book offers insights into the transformation of traditional library environments to digital libraries and details how digital libraries can contribute to Open Science, in particular to Open Access, FAIR and Open Data, and Open Education, by describing methods, criteria, strengths, and weaknesses as well as applications.

Over the past decades, traditional academic library environments have transformed into digital libraries. This has resulted in many challenges for libraries in terms of the reinvention of libraries’ roles and organizations, the skill sets of librarians, and library infrastructure. At the same time, this profound transformation has opened the door to many new avenues, such as the support and advancement of Open Science.

Contents
1. Evaluating the Processes and Procedure of Digitalization Workflow
2. The Interactive Applications (IAs) in Academic Libraries: Challenges and Opportunities
3. Multiple Facets of Open: A Different View on Open Science
4. Overview of the Principles and Practices of Open Access Publishing
5. Origins and Developments of the Open Access Books
6. FAIR and Open Research Metadata as Leverage for Digital Libraries: The Flemish Case
7. An Educational Project Based on a Digital Library of Filmed Courses


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