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Library Journal Ranks IGI Global's InfoSci-Books Database 10 Out of 10
Leading Professional Magazine for Libraries Rates Database "Solidly Recommended"
Library Journal, the oldest and most respected publication covering the library field, gives highest marks for IGI Global’s InfoSci-Books in the magazine’s upcoming June 1st release, rating the database 10 out of 10. InfoSci-Books, a comprehensive, perpetual access database, contains over 16,000 full-text PDF book chapters from 800+ scholarly books and reference works in the computer science and information technology management fields of research.
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Virtual Malls Offer Shoppers Same Buying Power with Fewer Bags to Carry |
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Experts agree that today’s technological potential of Internet systems provides adequate means for building online multimedia applications that can help e-commerce sites attract e-shoppers. New technologies offer to e-commerce sites the possibility of creating enhanced and highly personalized user experiences, with applications built to adapt to the user’s profile and provide the user with a suitable set of information in the most efficient way.
University of Peloponnese (Greece) authors George Lepouras and Costas Vassilakis explore a system that exploits capabilities offered by adaptation and virtual reality (VR) technologies to offer e-shoppers personalized and enhanced experiences, while addressing challenges related to the cost, complexity, and
effort of building and maintaining such a system, in a chapter entitled “Adaptive Virtual Reality Shopping Malls” in recently released book collection Virtual Technologies: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications (edited by Jerzy Kisielnicki, Warsaw University, Poland).
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Teachers Resist Abandoning the Blackboard for Technology |
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While many factors may contribute to teachers’ attitudes in an online learning environment, evidence abounds that some instructors absolutely love to teach online while others would not want to come near it.
In Expectations and Demands in Online Teaching: Practical Experiences, University of Phoenix professor and book author Sorin Walter Gudea examines the teachers’ perspectives on online teaching in order to provide a grounded understanding of the experience of teaching online. He identifies teachers’ attitudes in relation to teaching online and the factors that affect them, as viewed from the perspectives of teachers.
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| Archaeologists Dig Into E-Learning and Database Technologies to Evolve Scientific Practice |
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The goals of any archaeological endeavor are defined by a human need to document and explain the evolution of mankind and to chronicle his cultural heritage. While the actual science of archaeology hasn’t changed much over the years, the science and technology used to record,
organize and share archaeological data has progressed dramatically.
E-Learning Methodologies and Computer Applications in Archaeology, by Dionysios Politis, explains how each archaeological site is a unique organism, alive with sections, layers, constructs, phases, and anomalous arrays of artifacts and features.
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UK Professor Takes a Philosophical Look at Information Systems
University of Salford (UK) professor Andrew Basden observes information systems from a unique standpoint – a philosophical one. As a long-time professor of a wide-range of fields including human computer interaction, philosophy, and business information systems and author of the recently released book Philosophical Frameworks for Understanding Information Systems, Basden proposes consideration of the philosophical implications taken on by information systems in order to avoid missing the whole story.
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IGI Global Announces Expiration of Distribution Agreement with Ebooks Corporation/EBL in June
IGI Global, industry leading publisher of scholarly books, journals, and databases in computer science and information technology management, has announced that its agreement with Ebooks Corporation for electronic distribution of IGI Global books, including distribution via the Ebook Library (EBL) platform, will expire in June 2008. IGI Global has elected not to renew the agreement following its expiration.
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IGI on the Road
Visit IGI Global at the Upcoming Fairs and Conferences:
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Special Libraries Association 2008: June 15-18, 2008, Seattle, WA, Booth #131
American Library Association 2008: June 28-July 1, 2008, Anaheim, CA
American Psychological Association 2008: August 14-17, 2008, Boston, MA
Frankfurt Book Fair 2008:
October 15-17, 2008, Frankfurt, Germany
XXVIII Annual Charleston Conference: November 5-8, Charleston, SC
22nd Guadalajara International Book Fair: November 29-December 7, 2008, Guadalajara, Mexico
Online Information 2008: December 2-4, 2008, Booth #608, London, UK |
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