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Sustainability of Scholarly Information.
Professor Gobinda Chowdhury BSc Hons, MSc, PhD, FCLIP is Professor in Information Science at iSchool@northumbria, and Head of the Department of Mathematics and Information Sciences at Northumbria University. Before joining Northumbria University he was a Professor and Director of the Centre for Info...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Facet Publishing,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Title page; Contents; Figures and tables; Preface; 1 The sustainability of information: an outline; Introduction; The concept of sustainability; Sustainable development; Information about sustainability vs sustainable information; About this book; Summary; References; 2 The three dimensions of sustainability; Introduction; Economic sustainability; Social sustainability; Environmental sustainability; The three pillars of sustainable development; An integrated approach to sustainable development; The sustainability of information; Summary; References.
- 3 The economic sustainability of informationIntroduction; The publishing industry; The generic business model for scholarly information; Open access; Access to digital information; Access to journals and databases; The economics of digital information; Value-added information; Summary; References; 4 The environmental sustainability of information; Introduction; The IPCC report and GHG emissions; The carbon footprint of IT; Green IT; Measuring the environmental impact of information services; Summary; References; 5 The social sustainability of information; Introduction; Related studies.
- Users, community and social sustainabilityIndicators for the social sustainability of information; How to study the social sustainability of information; Information systems and services for sustainable development; Legal and policy frameworks; Technology, infrastructure and social sustainability; Users, culture and social sustainability; Summary; References; 6 Printed vs digital content and sustainability issues; Introduction; Estimating the carbon footprint of printed content; Factors responsible for GHG emissions from printed and digital content; Summary; References.
- 7 Open access models and the sustainability of informationIntroduction; Open access policies of institutions and funding bodies; Open access content and data; Gold open access and the sustainability of information; Summary; References; 8 Sustainable management of open access information: a conceptual model; Introduction; Managing open access information; Attributes of a new open access content and data management system; The conceptual model; Opportunities and challenges; The sustainability of the proposed open access content and data management system; Summary; References.
- 9 Green information services: a conceptual modelIntroduction; Cloud computing; A framework for green information services for the higher education sector; Summary; References; 10 Information access and sustainability issues; Introduction; Cloud computing and information retrieval research; Measuring the environmental impact of information access: the lifecycle analysis approach; Measuring the environmental impact of information retrieval: an alternative approach; Green user behaviour; Summary; References; 11 The sustainability of information models; Introduction.