New Journal: International Journal on Digital Libraries

Editors-in-Chief:
Nabil R. Adam                   Yelena Yesha
Rutgers University CIMIC        UMBC/NASA CESDIS
Newark, NJ 07102                Baltimore, MD 21228
adam@adam.rutgers.edu           yeyesha@cs.umbc.edu
(201) 648-5239                  (410) 455-3542

The aim of the journal is to advance the theory and practice of acquisition,
definition, organization, management and dissemination of digital information
via global networking. In particular, the journal will emphasize technical
issues in digital information, production, management and use, issue in
high-speed networks and connectivity, inter-operability, and seamless
integration of information, people, profiles, tasks and needs, security and
privacy of individuals and business transactions and effective business
processes in the Information Age. The journal seeks high quality research
papers that present original theoretical results, algorithms, or approaches, as
well as empirical and experimental studies related to the following areas:

* Agent technology for information filtering; location and dissemination;
targeted information delivery systems; personal information delivery and
filtering; discovery of new information and sources of new information.
* Acquisition of digital information; authoring environments for digital
objects; digitization of traditional content.
* Security and privacy, digital timestamping, digital signatures, digital
watermarks, notarization and authentication systems.
* Information organization, storage and management, archival of information,
subscription management and issues in recency of information.
* Interoperability of different digital objects, multimodal presentations,
cross-platform interoperability.
* Information navigation, intelligent surfing and browsing, automatic browsing
index creation, resource discovery, through opinion indexing, search by
content, semantic searching, smart indexing and search technology.
* User interface for digital objects, design of user interfaces for universal
access, multimedia user interfaces, interface for handicapped users, adaptive
user interfaces.
* Electronic commerce, virtual banking, electronic financial transactions.
* Economics of Digital Libraries, intellectual property issues, billing
systems, universal access and tariffs.

Instructions for authors are available from:
DOEBL@SPRINGER.DE

For subscription info and sample copies contact
Springer-Verlag; Heidelberger Platz 3; D-14197 Berlin, Germany;
subscriptions@springer.de

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