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ICST Publications

A Web 2.0 model publications portfolio

The ICST Publications portfolio consists of a series of innovative tools designed to promote innovation, drastically shorten time from idea to publication, and provide inherent incentives for quality. ICST Publications directly support the society activities by providing state-of-the-art platforms for improved information sharing and dissemination utilizing advanced methodologies of information dissemination and business concepts. ICST's innovative publication tools exploit emergent web methodologies to allow society members and organizations to be able to link, share, disseminate, and cooperate in real time. These Web 2.0 oriented multimedia based tools support live, on-line interactive information exchange, combined with high quality archival opportunities, and provide a variety of novel publication outlets in video, audio, and the web. These tools aim at serving the scientific, research, business, and regulatory communities by offering digital age access and use of information through publication vehicles that support multi- format dissemination, a shortened publication cycle, and novel online publishing mechanisms.

In addition, ICST activities provide society members with a wide array of opportunities to e-publish within the frameworks and instruments of the traditional archival publishing through e-books, e- journals, magazines, and similar venues:

1. The ICST Transactions journal series covers a wide technological spectrum focusing on the crossroads of ICT and alternative walks of life, such as economy, energy, nanotechnology, bioengineering, or health. To learn more about the ICST Transactions journal series, please visit: http://www.icst.org/publications/transactions.

2. The scientific output of ICST sponsored technical conferences are published in ICST's joint publication series with Springer, the Lecture Notes of ICST (LNICST). To learn more about the ICST Conference Proceedings, please visit: http://www.icst.org/publications/lecture_notes_icst/.

3. The ICST Innovation Books series provide a publication avenue for the audience and contributors of ICST's science-to-business and engineering for innovation conferences. To learn more about the ICST Innovation Books series, please visit: http://www.icst.org/publications/books/.

ICST content contributions are based on a proactive-prosumer approach where the value of each contribution is gauged by its impact as measured by downloads and ranking. ICST authors are directly rewarded for participation and share in the royalties generated through their contribution to the scientific and business communities at large.