Sustainability of Digital Information

Informationen zum Autor 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 Information and Knowledge Management at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. For over 25 years he has worked as an academic and researcher in information science in different parts of the world including Asia, Africa, Europe and Australia. For the past few years he has been actively involved in the iSchools activities. Professor Chowdhury has written or edited 15 books and over 150 research papers. Zusammenfassung This is the first book to discuss the sustainable development of digital scholarly information in three key aspects: economic, social and environmental sustainability. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The sustainability of information: an outline 2. The three dimensions of sustainability 3. The economic sustainability of information 4. The environmental sustainability of information 5. The social sustainability of information 6. Printed vs digital content and sustainability issues 7. Open access models and the sustainability of information 8. Sustainable management of open access information: a conceptual model 9. Green information services: a conceptual model 10. Information access and sustainability issues 11. The sustainability of information models 12. Research on sustainable information.

Product details

• Authors: G. G. Chowdhury, Chowdhury G. G.
• Publisher: American library assn
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2014
• EAN: 9781856049566
• ISBN: 978-1-85604-956-6
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Book trade, library system; Archiving, preservation & digitisation, Library, archive and information management, Publishing industry and journalism, Publishing industry & book trade, Library, Archive & Information Management, IT, Internet and electronic resources in libraries, IT, Internet & electronic resources in libraries, Archiving, preservation and digitization, scholarly communication;open access