Editorial
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1108/DLP-05-2023-139 |
| Published date | 28 April 2023 |
| Date | 28 April 2023 |
| Pages | 129-130 |
| Subject Matter | Library & information science,Librarianship/library management,Library technology,Records management & preservation,Information repositories |
| Author | Anna Maria Tammaro,Juan D. Machin-Mastromatteo |
Editorial
Digital libraries are social as well as technological entitie s. They aim to help people learn and
carry out shared knowledge-related work or processes across the boundaries of space and time.
Digital libraries are designed, used and evaluated in this context of collective knowledge
creation; and digital libraries interact with this context, changing and being changed by it.
The construction of digital libraries cannot therefore be confused with digitization,
understood as the migration from paper to digital media. Effective digital libraries need to
be designed and evaluated with a sensitivity to howknowledge is created and understood,
and the work of knowledge creation is done in community-driven contexts that share
practices and tools. The use of digital librariesis a socially integrated process. Similarly,the
development of digitallibraries is a complex social process.
This Digital Library Perspectives’secondissue of 2023 intends to present socially rooted
approaches to understanding digital libraries; to identify and discuss the main issues that
emerge from these approachesand, more generally, from the social nature of digitallibraries
in different context of the world; and to consider the implications for the design and
management of digitallibraries.
In “Copyright implications for the aggregation of audiovisual content in Greece,”
Malliari, Nitsos, Zapounidou and Doropoulos provide an overview of the copyright legal
framework for audiovisual (AV) resourcesin Europe and Greece, and they discuss how AV
content is currently licensed by Greek providers and how current licenses enable reuse.
Despite the abundance of copyright legislation in the European Union and in Greece, AV
content providers in Greece seem to ignore it or have difficulties in choosing the right
license. More than half of them choose to publish their resources on popular AV platforms
using the default licensing option provided. Copyright licenses and exceptions in the
European Union and in Greek legislation have been thoroughly reviewed along with the
reuse of content, basedon the terms of Fair Use, Rights Statements and Creative Commons.
The legal perspective and analysis of user behavior is also present in the second paper of
this issue. Otike and Nakitare in “Plagiarism conundrum in Kenyan Universities: An
impediment to quality research”report the problem that plagiarism is on the rise, mainly due to
increased access to the internet and digital sou rces. To combat the threat of plagiarism, various
universities have implemented countermeasures, but in Kenya, there seems to be a lack among
universities to tackle plagiarism. Hence, this paper examines and identifies current anti-
plagiarism practices in Kenyan universities. The study determined that most universities agree
that plagiarism negatively affects the quality of teaching, learning and research; however, there
are no adequate mechanisms, strategies and policies to address plagiarism issues. The results
of this study can be used to improve the quality of academic writing and standardize
plagiarism procedures by proposing policy actions necessary for this goal.
From the University of Dhaka in Bangladesh, Islam Md. Anwarul and Tonmoy Tazbir Khan
present their research on student behavior with the title “Do students look for information
differently? Information seeking behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic.”This study
highlights that the COVID-19 pandemic has increased the demand for a variety of information
sources and usage has changed over time before and during the pandemic.Most students, while
searching for COVID information, have faced challenges, mostly related to the availability of
unreliable information. Students used more social media tools during the COVID period than
before it, and some significant relationships were found between student demographic variables
and student understanding of choosing COVID-related information sources.
Editorial
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DigitalLibrary Perspectives
Vol.39 No. 2, 2023
pp. 129-130
© Emerald Publishing Limited
2059-5816
DOI 10.1108/DLP-05-2023-139
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