All aspects of digital libraries are in scope for JCDL. This includes but is not limited to digital information discovery, collection, management, retrieval, (re-)use, distribution, and preservation. Models and standards for digital data description are also in scope, as well as institutional systems, platforms, and services to facilitate the broad spectrum around digital (research) data management. Digital libraries further entail the many aspects of digital preservation, from storage concepts to file formats to access methods. It covers many media types, the entire information life cycle, and provides research areas for computer scientists, information scientists, librarians, archivists, historians, journalists in academia, industry, and nonprofits.

ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) is technically sponsored by IEEE. The conference proceedings are likely to be indexed in Scopus and Web of Science.