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Case Studies in Web Sustainability

A new article has been published in  Ariadne  on the work done at the University of Northampton on web sustainability. Turner S (2012) . "Case Studies in Web Sustainability".  November 2012 ,  Ariadne  Issue 70  http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue70/turner   ISSN: 1361-3200 At the moment organisations often make significant investments in producing Web-based material, often funded through public money, for example from JISC. But what happens when some of those organisations are closed or there  is no longer any money or resources to host the site? We are seeing cuts in funding or changes in governmental policy, which is resulting in the closure of some of these organisations. What happens to those Web resources when the organisations are no longer in existence? Public money has often been used to develop these resources - from that perspective it would be a shame to lose them. Moreover, the resources might be needed or someone may ...