LibQUAL+® and the Information Commons Initiative at Buffalo State College: 2003 to 2009

Information commons: future of academic libraries

Background and Aim: This paper seeks to explore the concepts of the information commons (IC). The paper provides a look at the models and characteristics of the IC. A number of projects of the IC are presented. We will discuss the situation of an existing traditional library. It makes recommendations for converting an existing library space into an IC. A number of Challenges of implementation o...

The Metadata Education and Research Information Commons (MERIC): A collaborative teaching and research initiative

The Information Commons Gazetteer

Advances in location aware computing and the convergence of geographic and textual information systems will require a comprehensive, extensible, information rich framework called the Information Commons Gazetteer, that can be freely disseminated to small devices in a modular fashion. This paper describes the infrastructure and datasets used to create such a resource. The Gazetteer makes use of ...

mapping of the international journal of information science and management (2003-2009): a citation study

the study is based on 1808 citations appended to 101 research articles published in 7 volumes of 14 issues appeared in the international journal of information science and management (ijism) during 2003 to 2009. earlier, this journal was known (before 2008) as the iranian journal of information science and technology (ijist). here, the author is considering the latest title (ijism) for the stud...

Trade , Tragedy , and the Commons March 19 , 2003

We develop a theory of resource management where the degree to which countries escape the tragedy of the commons is endogenously determined and explicitly linked to changes in world prices and other possible effects of market integration. We show how changes in world prices can move some countries from de facto open access situations to ones where management replicates that of an unconstrained ...