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Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Professors looking for supplementary material for their classes may find titles from IGI Global’s e-access program to be the ideal addition. E-access books and journals are hosted on IGI Global’s advanced, IP-authenticated platform, which makes the purchase available to all students on campus as well as via a proxy service for off campus use, if your institution permits. This allows professors to post links directly to the supplemental reading material on Blackboard or your institution’s preferred course management system. IGI Global allows unlimited simultaneous access for multiple users and print capabilities for users’ convenience. The purchases can also be added ...
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Wednesday, December 21, 2011
IGI Global, an international publishing company specializing in applied research publications on all aspects of information technology management, proudly announces its partnership with Thomson Reuters on their Book Citation Index, a sister project of their well-known and greatly respected Journal Citation Index. The Book Citation Index, like the Journal Citation Index, will list research publications based on the frequency with which they are cited in other research materials.
IGI Global worked closely with Thomson Reuters in selecting publications for consideration and they are pleased to announce that 20 titles have been accepted for inclusion in the Book Citation Index, set ...
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Wednesday, December 21, 2011
IGI Global, an international publishing company specializing in applied research publications on all aspects of information technology management, recently unveiled a fresh new look to its website. The newly redesigned website, still located at www.igi-global.com, has all of the great features of the old design, but now allows for a much more modern and user-friendly experience.
Some of the new features include:
• The ability to sample the first three pages of a book chapter and/or journal article prior to purchasing it so that you can be sure you are acquiring research pertinent to your work or studies
• More prominent ...
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Friday, December 02, 2011
IGI Global editor Dr. Andrea Edmundson recently hosted a symposium entitled “Modifying Online Classes for Non-U.S. Learners,” held on November 17, 2011. This symposium was a part of IGI Global’s Online Educational Symposium Series sponsored by InfoSci®-Journals.
Dr. Edmundson’s symposium was extremely well attended, with approximately 50 participants from the higher education community. Those attending the session interacted with Dr. Edmundson via a live chat and question feed, and listened to her discussion of typical challenges faced by non-American students in U.S. designed courses. The informative session touched on learning from the students’ perspective and how faculty can promote a ...
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Friday, November 25, 2011
InfoSci®-E-Government is a fully-searchable, customizable database that provides access to all chapters included in IGI Global books that have been published on the core information science discipline of e-government. Titles included in this collection represent IGI Global’s unique focus on the role, impact, and effective use of technology within e-government, global information technology, environmental technologies, and more essential topics. This collection is highly relevant in today’s ever-changing technological landscape. Topics covered in this unique collection include the digital divide and developing countries, environmental engineering, electronic services, environmental technologies, global business, urban and regional development, electronic government, geoinformatics, enterprise information systems, ... Full story
Friday, September 23, 2011
InfoSci®-Journals is a rapidly expanding, full-text collection of peer-reviewed journals that focus on specialized topics in over 200 disciplines relating to technology, business, medicine, and engineering. Offering institutions exceptional value and unlimited access to a comprehensive collection of applied research journals, InfoSci®-Journals is the ultimate database priced at the cost of just a few single-title subscriptions.
Our journals are indexed in several prestigious indices, including Thomson Reuters, SCOPUS, and Compendex (Ei), among others.
IGI Global is currently offering free 30-day trials to our advanced platform. If you choose to take part in a trial of InfoSci®-Journals, your library will ... Full story
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
IGI Global’s recently released InfoSci®-Business Technologies database is an excellent resource for business schools that are looking for the most innovative and authoritative resources for their programs. This database includes some of IGI Global’s top adopted books for primary course materials, as well as many other new and exciting books that have excellent practical usage.
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Thursday, August 25, 2011
IGI Global is excited to announce some recently implemented platform enhancements which will upgrade the user experience and make discoverability easier. These improvements to our platform include additional functionality to easily cite books and journals; the ability to save individual searches for quick reference; and improved search filters allowing narrower search options, copyright filtering, and improved relevance ranking. These enhancements allow our users to find, save, and cite their research more efficiently.
The most exciting upgrade to our platform is the “favorites” function. This enhancement allows registered users save their searches of books, chapters, journals, and so forth, to a ... Full story
Thursday, August 25, 2011
InfoSci®-Medical is a fully-searchable, customizable database that provides access to all chapters included in IGI Global books that have been published on the core information science discipline, medical informatics. Titles included in this collection represent IGI Global's unique focus on the role, impact, and effective use of technology within medical science, healthcare information systems, bioinformatics, and more essential topics.
Some new titles recently added to the InfoSci®-Medical database include:
Edited by Dr. Pietro Lio, University of Cambridge, UK and Dr. Dinesh Verma, IBM, USA, this book offers current perspectives and trends in ... Full story
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
IGI Global will be hosting a symposium entitled “Social Responsibly in the Information Age” with Arvind Ashta. This symposium will explore how the dynamic age of inter-systems connectivity has changed relationships and paradigms. Recent technological changes allow cloud computing and, within it, “software-as-a-service” (SaaS) to experience a steep reduction in costs. With the reduction of costs to operate, there is a social responsibility to reach out and maintain service to more institutions. Using microfinance as an example, this symposium will discuss how the shift in “software-as-a-service” changes microfinance institutions and how there is a social responsibility among the entire network ...
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