Paper: F Mobile Access to the Digital Library

The paper discusses the access of Digital libraries through other devices. It discusses the issues like size of the screen for display, mental model, access to critical data, etc. which may seriously affect performance in mobile environment. Along with the explosion of digital content has come the widespread deployment of wireless networks and availability of mobile devices to use these networks. With the increased popularity of small screen devices, more people are using their smaller devices to access the information over the Internet. In this paper we concentrate on the effect of viewing information from web-based Digital Libraries on a small screen, especially for users who switch between large screened devices and small screen devices either between sessions or during sessions. Clearly, we cannot maintain separate versions of the data in a Digital Library for each anticipated device but must move towards algorithms that provide automatic transformations for the migration of information between devices as needed. The goal is to support the information needs of the user independent of th