How to improve the sustainability of digital libraries and information services?
Chowdhury, Gobinda G. (2016) How to improve the sustainability of digital libraries and information services? Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 67 (10). pp. 2379-2391. ISSN 2330-1643 (https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.23599)
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Abstract
Arguing that environmental sustainability is a growing concern for digital information systems and services, this article proposes a simple method for estimation of the energy and environmental costs of digital libraries and information services. It is shown that several factors contribute to the overall energy and environmental costs of information and communication technology (ICT) in general and digital information systems and services in particular. It is also shown that end‐user energy costs play a key role in the overall environmental costs of a digital library or information service. It is argued that appropriate user research, transaction log analysis, user modeling, and better design and delivery of services can significantly reduce the user interaction time, and thus the environmental costs, of digital information systems and services, making them more sustainable.
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Item type: Article ID code: 72206 Dates: DateEvent31 October 2016Published22 October 2015Published Online11 June 2015AcceptedNotes: This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Chowdhury, Gobinda (2016) How to Improve the Sustainability of Digital Libraries and Information Services? Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 67 (10). pp. 2379-2391. , which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.23599 This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions. Subjects: Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources > Library Science. Information Science Department: Faculty of Science > Computer and Information Sciences Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 30 Apr 2020 09:04 Last modified: 09 Oct 2024 00:31 URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/72206