COTAC is pleased to announce that following an application to the British Library ISSN UK Centre it has been granted specific ISSN numbers for its online publications. In addition to that granted for its E-News series, ISSN 2632–9166 has been granted for the COTAC Conference Report series and ISSN2634-7709 for its Study series.
This formal recognition has occasioned a reformatting, in-part, of the material that was previously placed on the COTAC website www.cotac.global to bring it into line with British Library recommendations.
The first of these newly identified and re-released publications concern “Improving Thermal Performance in Traditional Buildings” and “Passed Caring? BIM and the Refurbishment of Older Buildings” Conference Reports of 2011 and 2012. Both have now been reposted on the COTAC website
This has been followed by the reposting of the COTAC Conference Report of 2013 entitled “A Digital Future for Traditional Buildings: Practical Applications for Survey and Management: Abstracts”. This report has been re-released online in conjunction with COTAC Study 1 “Integrating Digital Technologies in Support of Historic Buildings Information Modelling: BIM4Conservation (HBIM)”.
The Conference Reports are also supported on-line with pdf copies of what various speakers have presented where they have given their approval for this.
Over the next few months further Conference and Study reports will be re-released under their specific ISSN designations on the COTAC website.