Resources and links

Please note: some of the items linked from this page (marked LSE IS only) are only available to staff and students of the LSE Department of Information Systems. To access these using Firefox, enter lse\username and your password. To access these using Internet Explorer, enter your username and password and enter lse as the domain.

General IS resources

• Acronyms, Abbreviations, and Initialisms from the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute
• AISWorld Net (Association for Information Systems)
  • MISRC-AIS Faculty Directory
  • Professional Activities
  • IS Publications Main Page
  • ISWorld Net Research and Scholarship
  • Working Papers
• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
  • ACM TECHNews - summary of IT-related items from the press, published three times a week
• British Computer Society (BCS)
• Education Image Gallery - a collection of copyright-cleared images that can used to illustrate articles.
• Exemplary works on information systems research (Word document) - responses to an ISWorld survey
• Free online journals on information systems
• Information Systems Integrity Group, LSE
• International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP)
  • International Federation for Information Processing Working Group 8.2: Information Systems and Organizations
  • International Federation for Information Processing Working Group 9.4: Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries
• ISBIB: The IS Bibliographic Repository - this project is an attempt to collate all bibliographic information of value to the information systems (IS) community. It contains a searchable database of articles from 174 IS-related journals with a facility to export to EndNote
• ISPedia: a new project on the WikiPedia model to develop a collaborative open content encyclopaedia to record knowledge of IS
• LSE IS Department Working Papers Series
• MISQ Central
  • MISQ Discovery
  • Forthcoming Articles
• MIT Center for Coordination Science
• Qualitative Research in Information Systems
• Sloan School of Management MIT OpenCourseWare: course materials available online
• The-IT-Resource.com index of IT related websites

Libraries and library resources

• COPAC - combined catalogue of over 20, and growing, leading UK research libraries
• Free online journals on Information Systems
• ISI Web of Knowledge Service for UK Education
• JAKE - jointly administered knowledge environment - a search tool for articles across many databases
• LSE library catalogue
• LSE library guide to resources for Information Systems
• LSE library Journals portal (access to journals only available to LSE users)
  • ACM Digital Library - full text of articles from ACM journals from 1985 onwards
• Technical opinion: How to quickly find articles in the top IS journals - Communications of the ACM article
• University of London libraries: information and catalogues
• London (M25) List of Journals in all London academic libraries

Conference proceedings

• Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) 1998-2000 (LSE IS only)
• CEUR Workshop Proceedings - a repository of many workshop proceedings - mainly technical
• Critical Management Studies Conference
  • Manchester, 1999 Proceedings
  • Critical Management Studies Conference 2001 Proceedings
  • Critical Management Studies 2003 - CD of proceedings available for £30: email t.wisniewska@lancaster.ac.uk
  • Critical Management Studies Conference 2005 Proceedings
  • Critical Management Studies Conference 2007 Proceedings
• European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS)
  • Papers from 2000 - 2004 conferences
  • European Conference on Information Systems Endnote libraries
• European Knowledge Management Conference
  • The Third European Conference on Organizational Knowledge, Learning and Competencies, Athens, April 2002 (LSE IS only)
  • The Fifth European Conference on Organizational Knowledge, Learning and Competencies, Innsbruck, Austria, April 2004 (LSE IS only)
• Globalsourcing conference
  • Papers from the first conference
     Val d'Isère France, 10-13 March 2008
• IFIP Working Group 8.2 - Information Systems and Organisations
• Papers from 1984 and 1997-2006 conferences (LSE IS only) (International Federation for Information Processing)
• International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS)
  • Papers from 1996 to 2003 conferences (LSE IS only)
  • ICIS (and AMCIS) proceedings on-line (AIS members only)

Research methods

• Action research resources
• Exemplary Works on Information Systems Research (Word document) - responses to an ISWorld survey
• Qualitative research bibliography
• Qualitative Research in Information Systems
• Research methods resources on the WWW - links page from the University of British Columbia
• Survey instruments in IS - references to survey instruments and copies of questionnaires
• The Web Research Guide - prepared by Elsevier to help students, faculty members, authors and research scientists find the information they need on the web

Ways of searching the web

• BUBL Information Service - A useful and fast launch point for searching for academic internet resources from the UK
• W3 Search Engines - a list from CUI at the University of Geneva (no longer updated)
• Search Engine Showdown: The Users' Guide to Web Searching - reviews and a guide to the features of the main search engines
• SearchEdu.com - searches the US (only) education domain. It is very fast - they cache most pages
• Scirus - searches scientific websites (academic and journal) only
• Computing & Technology on About.com
• UK Active Map of Universities and HE Institutions - by far the fastest way of finding a UK higher education home page
• Ways of improving Google searching

Building web pages

• Links for web design and scripting

Newspaper and magazine home pages

(Many of these require you to register to use them.)

• Datamation
• Economist.com LSE login required
• Guardian Unlimited
• Le Monde.fr
• The Independent
• The New York Times
• Nexis searchable database of full text of newpapers and newswire services from around the world. It includes the full text of UK daily newspapers from 1980 to the present day. (LSE login required)
• Times Online
• The Times Higher Education Supplement
• Guardian Unlimited: The WebLog - links to articles on current news items
• Top 100 Computer & Software WWW Magazines & Journals

Other IS links pages

• @Brint.com index of Management Information Systems Research resources
• Essential freeware and software
• Information Communication and Society's resources page, an idiosyncratic but interesting list
• Information Systems Integrity Group
• INSEAD Centre for Advanced Learning Technologies: The Encyclopaedia - well organised and annotated pages of links on a wide variety of topics from groupware to gaming

Programming languages and databases

• Fortran 90, 95 and 2003 Home Page from Kings College, London
  • Java Home Page
  • C++ Home Page
  • Relational Database Design Guidelines (PDF)
• XML: Managing Data Exchange - an open content XML textbook using Wiki technology from the University of Georgia

Bibliographies and topic pages

• EndNote libraries of papers from selected journals and conferences
• EndNote Resources from AISWorld - a growing list of ready-formatted libraries from research validities to computational ontologies
  • EndNote styles for the main IS journals
• Free / Open Source Research Community - a collection of research resources including full papers and working papers from MIT/ Sloan
• The History of Computing: An Encyclopedia of the People and Machines that Made Computer History (LSE IS only) - 2001 edition
• Internet Resources Newsletter - links to new, useful sites, an archive and more
• MobiForum: a portal for socio-economic aspects of m-commerce
• Mobile Interaction and Pervasive Social Devices - a joint LSE/ Salford site supporting the research network on mobile computing
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Theoretical Sources - a rich resource of online readings on everything from actor-network theory to cognitive science by way of cybernetics and the sociology of knowledge, compiled by Martin Ryder at the University of Colarado, Denver
• Web resources on knowledge management
• Webopedia - combined online dictionary and search engine about computer and internet technology
• Whatis.com - a knowledge exploration and self-education tool about information technology, especially the internet and computers

Study and writing skills

• ARTFL Project: ROGET'S Thesaurus Search Form from the University of Chicago
• The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation
• Common Errors in English from Washington State University
• Guardian Unlimited Style guide
• How to revise, reduce exam stress and do well
• Judy Vorfeld's Webgrammar
• On-line literature searching
• Links for online literature searching
• Online Writing Lab: Online Resources from Purdue University
• Oxford English Dictionary online (LSE users only)
• Proofreaders' Marks
• Student Training Tutorials - IT Training, LSE
• Writing Tips from First Monday's Guidelines for Authors

Please email m.cushman@lse.ac.uk to suggest other links for this page or to inform us of any links that do not work.

page last updated 12 August 2008

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