The International Journal on Digital Libraries (IJDL) examines the theory and practice of acquisition, definition, organization, management, preservation, and dissemination of digital information via global networking. It covers all aspects of digital libraries (DLs), from large-scale heterogeneous data and information management & access to linking and connectivity to security, privacy and policies, to its application, use, and evaluation.



The scope of IJDL includes, but is not limited to:

The FAIR principle and the digital libraries infrastructure

Findable: Information access and retrieval; semantic search; data and information exploration; information navigation; smart indexing and searching; resource discovery
Accessible: visualization and digital collections; user interfaces; interfaces for handicapped users; HCI and UX in DLs; Security and privacy in DLs; multimodal access
Interoperable: metadata (definition, management, curation, integration); syntactic and semantic interoperability; linked data
Reusable: reproducibility; Open Science; sustainability, profitability, repeatability of research results; confidentiality and privacy issues in DLs
Digital Library Architectures, including heterogeneous and dynamic data management; data and repositories


Acquisition of digital information: authoring environments for digital objects; digitization of traditional content
Digital Archiving and Preservation


Digital Preservation and curation
Digital archiving
Web Archiving
Archiving and preservation Strategies


AI for Digital Libraries


Machine Learning for DLs
Data Mining in DLs
NLP for DLs


Applications of Digital Libraries


Digital Humanities
Open Data and their reuse
Scholarly DLs (incl. bibliometrics, altmetrics)
Epigraphy and Paleography
Digital Museums


Future trends in Digital Libraries


Definition of DLs in a ubiquitous digital library world
Datafication of digital collections


Interaction and user experience (UX) in DLs


Information visualization
Collection understanding
Privacy and security
Multimodal user interfaces
Accessibility (or "Access for users with disabilities")
UX studies