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This article presents print and electronic information resources, Web sites, academic papers, and continuing education workshops about the OpenURL computer network protocol and digital library standard. Papers include: "Encoding OpenURLs in Dublin Core Metadata", "OpenResolver: A Simple OpenURL Resolver", "Open Linking for Libraries: The OpenURL Framework", "Linking Electronic Journals: Lessons from the Open Journal Project", "Reference Linking in a Hybrid Library Environment", and "CrossRef Turns One".

This paper describes the libraries devotion of their resources to access management. When libraries began buying electronic resources, they joined publishers and information scientists on the technology train, an express that generates its own momentum. First, libraries bought current subscriptions to electronic journals. Libraries also have been willing to buy expensive products even though they are seriously flawed. One of the most basic impacts of electronic publishing has been the stimulation of the belief that libraries must transform themselves and take on new roles. A few years ago library leaders talked about the challenges of maintaining the hybrid print/digital library. The balance has shifted perceptibly to the idea that the good library is the electronic library.

The article presents information on some information resources related to metadata futures. The report "All That Is Solid Melts into Flows...," by Lorcan Dempsey, has attempted to build on the 2002 report without repeating what is already published there while looking at metadata past and metadata current. An update to major metadata standards is provided by this, new information on other emerging or current metadata along with standards of interest. In the "Journal of Digital Information," an editorial titled "Digital Libraries and User Needs: Negotiating the Future," by Anita Coleman and Tamara Sumner is published in which three types of approaches are described in regard to understanding user needs, organizing content, and engaging community and participation. These models are user-centered design, participatory design, and shared governance models. Researcher William E. Moen discusses the current and future uses of metadata in the research paper "Metadata Interaction, Integration, and Interoperability" presented at the 2005 ALA Annual Conference in Chicago, and he provides some very good references as well.