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Wednesday, January 20, 2016

How to do really well with this subject

Read the readings. Go to the library and read the books.

The term paper is your project, you do the field research, you analyse, interpret, write up and create!

Target your writing towards ECIS, one of the main IS conferences. Word or LaTeX templates can be downloaded from https://goo.gl/TcN31Z

The following high quality, general conferences may be good sources for searching for similar research.
  • IFIP Working Group Conferences (esp. 8.2, 8.4, 8.6, 9.4) 
  • Academy of Management Conference 
  • ICIS 
  • EGOS
  • other local conferences like the Irish Academy of Management annual conference, UKAIS etc.
The following journals are potentially good quality sources for relevant related research. Register with a relevant journal to receive notifications of new publications; for example: Palgrave e-alerts (European Journal of Information Systems).
  • MIS Quarterly 
  • Information Systems Research 
  • Communications of The ACM 
  • Information & Organization 
  • European Journal of Information Systems 
  • Journal of Information Technology 
  • Information Systems Journal 
  • Journal of Strategic Information Systems 
  • Journal of Management Information Systems 
  • IT & People 
  • Scandinavian Journal of IS 
  • The Information Society 
  • Communications of the AIS 
  • Information and Management