During the last decade, universities have been facing far-reaching changes affecting the areas of teaching, research and administration. More emphasis on student services, increasing financial autonomy, implementation ...

In September 1999 as part of a Socrates/Erasmus exchange programme between the North East Wales Institute and Technical University in Liberec (Czech Republic), a module was developed for final year undergraduate students ...

Self Service for members of Higher Education Institutions, accessible anytime and anywhere via Internet and mobile phones, is beginning to transform the administration processes. What are the concepts, what kind of ...

Content: The internet connects authors with publishers with libraries, and with information professionals in worldwide industry. Information professionals may be researchers and scientists at heart, but have to behave ...

Ensuring the security of the information systems in an university is not simple. When this university is scattered over about fifteen different sites, the security measures become very complex. Moreover, when you consider ...

At the University of Bergen, a new system for documenting current research (CRIS) in administration and strategic planning is under development. There are several motivation factors behind the new system development, one ...

This contribution addresses the challenges for universities implied by recent developments in internet technology from an institutional management and organisational development perspective. The central thesis is that media ...

Preserving privacy and confidentiality of medical data has always been a fundamental question in medicine and healthcare. Information technologies state even greater requirements to medical data security, especially when, ...

Europe, increasingly, is becoming a place for people with the skills to conduct their business or social lives bilingually, and even multilingually. Often, people may communicate jointly through an indigenous tongue and ...

The goal of this paper is to describe how the development, implementation, and deployment of Information System of University of Latvia changed the life of the University and faculties. It has become possible to define and ...