D-Lib Magazine

{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox Journal | cover = | discipline = Library and information science | abbreviation =D-Lib Mag. | website = http://www.dlib.org/ | publisher = Corporation for National Research Initiatives | country = USA | ISSN = 1082-9873 | history = July 1995 – July 2017<br />(based on first issue date) }}

'''''D-Lib Magazine''''' was an online magazine dedicated to digital library research and development. Past issues are available free of charge. The publication was financially supported by contributions from the D-Lib Alliance. Prior to April 2006, the magazine was sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) on behalf of the Digital Libraries Initiative and by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Despite its important role in shaping the then emerging digital library community, ''D-Lib Magazine'' eventually folded due in part to an unsustainable funding model, the maturity of the field, and the rise of social media and blogs.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Nelson |first1=Michael L. |last2=Van de Sompel |first2=Herbert |title=Proceedings of the 22nd ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries |chapter=D-lib magazine pioneered web-based scholarly communication |date=2022-06-20 |series=JCDL '22 |location=New York, NY, USA |publisher=Association for Computing Machinery |pages=1–12 |doi=10.1145/3529372.3530929 |isbn=978-1-4503-9345-4|doi-access=free }}</ref> After 22 years, 265 issues and 1062 articles ''D-Lib Magazine'' ceased publication in July 2017.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dlib.org/ |title=Home |website=dlib.org}}</ref>

''D-Lib Magazine'' was innovative in many ways, including: HTML-only publishing (no PDF versions), open access, and use of persistent identifiers for articles (the Handle System and later DOIs (which are implemented using the Handle System)).<ref name="retrospective">{{cite web |last1=Nelson |first1=Michael |last2=Van de Sompel |first2=Herbert |title=A 25 Year Retrospective on D-Lib Magazine |url=https://ws-dl.blogspot.com/2020/08/2020-08-27-25-year-retrospective-on-d.html |accessdate=30 August 2020}}</ref>

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==External links== *[http://www.dlib.org/ ''D-Lib Magazine'' website]

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