Advanced Search

Journal Navigation

Journal Home

Subscriptions

Archive

Contact Us

Table of Contents

Click here to sign up for SAGE Journal Email Alerts today!

Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
Information Development
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow References
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Saved Citations
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Request Reprints
Right arrow Add to My Marked Citations
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Right arrow Citing Articles via Scopus
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Lou, H.
Right arrow Articles by Zimmerman, J.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Complore   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati   Add to Twitter  
What's this?

The Development of Digital Libraries in China and the USA

Hongqing Lou

South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China 510640lihqlou{at}scut.edu.cn

Julia Zimmerman

Ohio University, Athens, Ohio 45701, USAzimmerj1{at}ohio.edu

Describes the development of the Digital Library Initiatives, the project’s experimental centers, and several information resource sharing networks in America and compares them with the development of the China Digital Library Project (CDLP), the China Academic Library and Information System (CALIS), and related initiatives. Comparisons are made between the two countries’ approaches to organization and coordination of their respective digital library projects and the related developments in networking, information resources, and information technology. Also discusses the existing problems and coping strategies for digital library projects in China.

Information Development, Vol. 19, No. 1, 13-22 (2003)
DOI: 10.1177/026666690301900104
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati   Add to Twitter Twitter    What's this?