Meet the editor

Sadia Vancauwenbergh is head of the Information Management and Strategic Data Analysis Unit at Hasselt University, Belgium, and Project Leader at ECOOM, an Expertise Centre for Research Development monitoring in Flanders, Belgium. She is president of euroCRIS, the International Organization for Research Information, and vice-chair of the International Society of Knowledge Organization – Low Countries Chapter. Dr. Vancauwenber-

gh's research interests are focused on Open Science and CRIS systems, particularly semantic interoperability. She was a member of the EOSC Working Groups for Landscape and Skills and Training and is a convener of the EOSC Association Task Force Semantic Interoperability. She is also a member of the Commission International/Federal Cooperation on Open Science, Belgium; the Flemish Open Science Board; and chair of the FOSB Working Group Metadata & Standardization.

Contents

**Section 1**

**Section 2**

**Section 3**

**Section 4**

*and Joseph Ngoaketsi*

Challenges and Opportunities

*by Anne-Katharina Weilenmann*

*by Omer Hassan Abdelrahman*

*by Andrea Capaccioni*

The Flemish Case

*by Sadia Vancauwenbergh*

*by Husain Ghuloum and Zuwainah Al-lamki*

**Preface XI**

Digitisation and Interactive Applications in Digital Libraries **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 15**

Open Science **31**

**Chapter 3 33**

Open Access **53**

**Chapter 4 55**

**Chapter 5 69**

FAIR and Open Data **83**

**Chapter 6 85**

Evaluating the Processes and Procedure of Digitalization Workflow

*by Collence Takaingenhamo Chisita, Oluwole O. Durodolu* 

The Interactive Applications (IAs) in Academic Libraries:

Multiple Facets of Open: A Different View on Open Science

Origins and Developments of the Open Access Books

Overview of the Principles and Practices of Open Access Publishing

FAIR and Open Research Metadata as Leverage for Digital Libraries:

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Preface

Academic libraries traditionally contain collections of scientific research in support of higher education institutions' research and education and allow easy retrieval of the information by anyone interested. For several centuries, the collections contained in academic libraries consisted of almost entirely physical materials, be it in the form of books, manuscripts, articles, and so on. However, since the twenty-first century, digital material has been vastly outgrowing the traditional information resources of libraries, thereby shifting the focus of academic libraries from collection development to information access and digital resources. At the same time, this digital transformation opens numerous avenues for exploring and using information, and hence for supporting and advancing Open Science.

This book explores the process and procedures of digitization as well as the potential of using interactive applications in digital libraries, thereby raising possibilities to open scientific research to the world. Open Science, that is, the practice of science in such a way that others can collaborate and contribute under terms that enable reuse, redistribution, and reproduction of the research and its underlying data and methods, has greatly transformed digital libraries. As such, this book also provides an overview of the principles and practices of Open Access publishing, followed by a particular focus on Open Access books. it also describes how FAIR and Open metadata can act as leverage for digital libraries. The book concludes with a chapter on the possibilities of academic libraries to stimulate Open Education by means of supporting the development of collaborative and interactive open learning

I would like to express my sincere thanks to all the co-authors who contributed to

**Sadia Vancauwenbergh** Data Science Institute, Hasselt University, ECOOM-Hasselt, Hasselt, Belgium

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