Information System on Literature in the Field of ICT for Environmental Sustainability

Abstract

The project ICT-ENSURE aims at building a pan-European Research Area in the field of ICT for environmental sustainability. For building up and establishing a research area, the access to the hitherto existing scientific literature in the field is of major importance. Therefore, a literature information system for the field of ICT for environmental sustainability has been developed within ICT-ENSURE. The system developed contains information on the papers of 14 EnviroInfo conferences and of 4 further conferences and workshops in the field under consideration. All in all, it comprises the metadata of about 1600 and the full texts of about 1000 articles. The information system offers various search and navigation paths to this content, including full text search, attribute search and navigation in the hierarchical structure of the conference proceedings. It is available in the Web at http://lit.ict-ensure.eu with free online access. This paper describes the concept, structure and functionality of the information system including the interfaces to other literature portals. It deals with the contents and user interface of the system and gives an outlook on the future of the information service.