Proceedings of the 2003 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Website usage metrics: A re-assessment of session data
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
A break in the clouds: towards a cloud definition
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
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From Green Computing to Sustainable IT: Developing a Sustainable Service Orientation
HICSS '10 Proceedings of the 2010 43rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
Cloud Computing: A Digital Libraries Perspective
CLOUD '10 Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE 3rd International Conference on Cloud Computing
Migrating a (large) science database to the cloud
Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing
Enhancing digital libraries with social navigation: the case of ensemble
ECDL'10 Proceedings of the 14th European conference on Research and advanced technology for digital libraries
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ICEE '10 Proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on E-Business and E-Government
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GREENCOMP '10 Proceedings of the International Conference on Green Computing
WI-IAT '10 Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Volume 03
Locking the sky: a survey on IaaS cloud security
Computing - Cloud Computing
An agenda for 'Green' information technology and systems research
Information and Organization
SP 800-145. The NIST Definition of Cloud Computing
SP 800-145. The NIST Definition of Cloud Computing
An agenda for green information retrieval research
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
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Climate change has become a major area of concern over the past few years and consequently many governments, international bodies, businesses, and institutions are taking measures to reduce their carbon footprint. However, to date very little research has taken place on information and sustainable development in general, and on the environmental impact of information services in particular. Based on the data collected from various research papers and reports, this review article shows that information systems and services for the higher education and research sector currently generate massive greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and it is argued that there is an urgent need for developing a green information service, or green IS in short, that should be based on minimum GHG emissions throughout its lifecycle, from content creation to distribution, access, use, and disposal. Based on an analysis of the current research on green information technology (IT), it is proposed that a green IS should be based on the model of cloud computing. Finally, a research agenda is proposed that will pave the way for building and managing green ISs to support education and research/scholarly activities. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.