Below is a list of free resources for those who teach and research in IS that were recently added to the TeachIs.com (gise.org) site. Eli COHEN http://telephone.elicohen.net ß long distance for less ------------------------------------------------------------------- Website to uncover plagiarism (added: 19-Jan-2001) http://findsame.com Submit an entire document, and site returns a list of web pages that contain any fragment of a document you submit (type in or word file) longer than about one line of text ------------------------------------------------------------------- The Value of IS Teaching and Research (added: 19-Jan-2001) http://inform.nu/Articles/Vol3/v3n4p167-184.pdf Christopher J. Hemingway & Tom G. Gough This paper provides a brief analysis of general developments in higher education to provide a context for discussing the developments specific to IS. Stakeholder analysis is then used to identify the main responsibilities and pressures placed upon the IS academic community. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Development of the Internet Watershed Educational Tool (InterWET) (added: 22-Jan-2001) http://inform.nu/Articles/Vol3/v3n4p185-193.pdf Shane Parson, James Hamlett, & Paul Robillard Watershed educational and informational efforts have largely neglected to inform one important group of decision-makers: local government officials. The Internet Watershed Educational Tool (InterWET) was developed to help inform local officials about water resources, using as a case study the Spring Creek Watershed in central Pennsylvania. -------------------------------------------------------------------- DSSResources.COM (added: 14-Jan-2001) http://dssresources.com DSSResources.COM (Decision Support Systems Resources) is a web-based knowledge repository. The mission of the site is to help people who are interested in learning about how to use information technologies and software to improve decision making. The target audience is IS professionals, IS students, managers interested in MIS and academics in MIS/DSS. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Decision Support Systems (added: 15-Jan-2001) http://dss.cba.uni.edu/courses/150127/ A study of decision systems and applications. Topics include: decision making, modeling and support; DSS development tools with particular emphasis on integrated fourth generation and expert systems tools; and organizational and social implications of decision systems and expert systems. ------------------------------------------------------------------- An ecological perspective for new economy and the ict-developments (added: 16-Jan-2001) http://members.geosoft.org/jan_leenders/new-ecology.htm New ethics and new ecological ethods for a new transparant economy and projects realted to ict- developments around the world. The impact of global communication and a borderlee economy. ------------------------------------------------------------------- ICT-developments and Pan European Networks (added: 16-Jan-2001) http://members.geosoft.org/jan_leenders/it-innovation-europe.htm The new developments in TMT, the convergence of internet, content, digital tereestrial web-tv, boradband technics and 3-g technology. An overview of the latest developments on the state of art internet. The new urban-technology. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Mobile Phones: Europe's Next Minitel? (added: 19-Jan-2001) http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20010107.html Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox, January 7, 2001: Europe's cellular phone system is far superior to that in the United States. However, telephones will not be the platform for the mobile Internet. Given this, Europe's advantage may in fact be an obstacle to real innovations, as France's experience with Minitel shows ------------------------------------------------------------------- Assessing Campus Diversity (added: 19-Jan-2001) http://courses.cs.vt.edu/~cs3604/lib/Campus/Diversity.Assessment.html Activities to promote diversity Many universities are still struggling with the need to develop a teaching/learning environment in which there is a diversity of attitudes and approaches to life based on a variety of backgrounds and life environments. While it is easier to understand the need for diverse opinions in understanding of social issues, the benefits of a diverse environment in science and engineering is much more difficult to explain readily. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Readings in Workflow Management (added: 19-Jan-2001) http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/WFBib/wf-bib-meta.html Linked and commented workflow bibliography ------------------------------------------------------------------- Readings in Workflow Management (added: 19-Jan-2001) http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/WFBib/wf-bib-meta.html Linked and commented workflow bibliography ------------------------------------------------------------------- PHP Builder Manual (added: 19-Jan-2001) http://www.phpbuilder.com/manual/ Free manual on how to build webpages using PHP. PHP itself is available for free. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Intellectual Freedom (added: 19-Jan-2001) http://www.sils.buffalo.edu/faculty/ellison/Syllabi/580/580_home.html Dr. John Ellison The effects of censorship, pressure-tactics, cultural pluralism, personal bias of the professional practitioner, the 'ism' problem, and the very utilization of the physical location for library and information are examined for the effect on equal access to materials. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Marketing of Information Services (added: 19-Jan-2001) http://www.sils.buffalo.edu/faculty/ellison/Syllabi/531/531_home.html John Ellison Theory, strategy, conceptualization, application, analysis, synthesis and evaluation of marketing IS ------------------------------------------------------------------- Ethics in Computing (added: 19-Jan-2001) http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/eos/users/e/efg/379/s00/course_locker/www/ Edward F. Gehringer Survey of the ethical issues involved in computing. It discusses the way that computers and software pose new ethical questions or pose new versions of standard moral problems and dilemmas. It stresses case studies that relate to ethical theory ------------------------------------------------------------------- Journal of Digital Information (added: 19-Jan-2001) http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/ A peer-reviewed Web journal supported by the British Computer Society and Oxford University Press. Requires FREE registration ------------------------------------------------------------------- Request Marketing (added: 19-Jan-2001) http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20001015.html Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox, October 15, 2000 The Web must reverse the traditional direction of marketing. Instead of a company generating messages when it wants to reach its customers, with request marketing, the company sends only messages that users ask for. Request marketing is especially suited to the mobile Internet, where intrusive messages are ultra aggravating ------------------------------------------------------------------- Content Creation for Average People (added: 19-Jan-2001) http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20001001.html Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox, October 1, 2000 To take the Internet to the next level, users must begin posting their own material rather than simply consuming content or distributing copyrighted material. Unfortunately most people are poor writers and even worse at authoring other media. Solutions include structured creation, selection-based media, and teaching content creation in schools. ------------------------------------------------------------------- New Devices Augur Decent Mobile User Experience (added: 19-Jan-2001) http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20000917.html Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox, Sept 17, 2000 The current generation of mobile Internet products and services has miserable usability (as shown at the DEMOmobile 2000 conference). New devices like Blackberry, Modo, and a prototype Microsoft telephone do better. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Regulatory Usability (added: 19-Jan-2001) http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20000903.html Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox, Sept 4, 2000 Regulatory agencies should not transfer their rules from the print world unchanged to Web content that is being read in a different manner. Instead, regulations should concern the usability of the actual information and whether users understand it. ------------------------------------------------------------------- The Web in 2001: Paying Customers (added: 19-Jan-2001) http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20001224.html Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox, December 24, 2000: Offering free services on websites is not a sustainable business model, nor is advertising, which doesn't work on the Web. Most Internet companies are now pursuing an enterprise strategy to make money, but they'll soon begin turning to individual customers for revenue as well. ------------------------------------------------------------------- WAP Field Study Findings (added: 19-Jan-2001) http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20001210.html Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox, December 10, 2000 Following a UK field study, 70% of users decided not to continue using WAP. Currently, its services are poorly designed, have insufficient task analysis, and abuse existing non-mobile design guidelines. WAP's killer app is killing time; m-commerce's prospects are dim for the next several years. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Security & Human Factors (added: 19-Jan-2001) http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20001126.html Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox, November 26, 2000: A big lie of computer security is that security improves as password complexity increases. In reality, users simply write down difficult passwords, leaving the system vulnerable. Security is better increased by designing for how people actually behave. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Drop-Down Menus: Use Sparingly (added: 19-Jan-2001) http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20001112.html Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox, November 12, 2000 Drop-down menus are often more trouble than they are worth and can be confusing because Web designers use them for several different purposes. Also, scrolling menus reduce usability when they prevent users from seeing all their options in a single glance. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Flash: 99% Bad (added: 19-Jan-2001) http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20001029.html Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox, October 29, 2000 Although multimedia has its role on the Web, current Flash technology tends to discourage usability for three reasons: it makes bad design more likely, it breaks with the Web's fundamental interaction style, and it consumes resources that would be better spent enhancing a site's core value. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Security for Future Computing Environments (pdf) (added: 19-Jan-2001) http://www.cm.deakin.edu.au/mwarren/secman/pdf/1.pdf ------------------------------------------------------------------- Issues in E-business Security Management and Policy (added: 19-Jan-2001) http://www.cm.deakin.edu.au/mwarren/secman/pdf/3.pdf ------------------------------------------------------------------- Is AS/NZ Ready for E Commerce? (added: 19-Jan-2001) http://www.cm.deakin.edu.au/mwarren/secman/pdf/2.pdf ------------------------------------------------------------------- Workstation Security: The Need for Evaluation (added: 19-Jan-2001) http://www.cm.deakin.edu.au/mwarren/secman/pdf/9.pdf ------------------------------------------------------------------- Availability and Accessibility of Hacker Information on the Internet (added: 19-Jan-2001) http://www.cm.deakin.edu.au/mwarren/secman/pdf/10.pdf ------------------------------------------------------------------- Not b2b or b2c but i2s: teaching responsible computer use (added: 19-Jan-2001) http://www.cm.deakin.edu.au/mwarren/secman/pdf/11.pdf ------------------------------------------------------------------- Data Protection and Privacy: The Emerging Australian Legislation ... (added: 19-Jan-2001) http://www.cm.deakin.edu.au/mwarren/secman/pdf/13.pdf ------------------------------------------------------------------- Promoting security awareness and training within small organisations (added: 19-Jan-2001) http://www.cm.deakin.edu.au/mwarren/secman/pdf/15.pdf ------------------------------------------------------------------- On-line Attacks against Small and Medium sized Enterprises (added: 19-Jan-2001) http://www.cm.deakin.edu.au/mwarren/secman/pdf/14.pdf ------------------------------------------------------------------- Journal of Media Management (added: 19-Jan-2001) http://www.mediajournal.org/ The JMM, founded in 1999, focuses on current developments and the latest trends in the field of new media management and media economics. ------------------------------------------------------------------- David Noble's Articles on Digital Diploma Mills (added: 19-Jan-2001) http://communication.ucsd.edu/dl/index.html Part I: The Automation of Higher Education October, 1997 Part II: The Coming Battle Over Online Instruction March,1998 Part III: The Bloom Is Off the Rose November, 1998 Part IV: Rehearsal for the Revolution November, 1999 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Distance Education (added: 19-Jan-2001) http://communication.ucsd.edu/Undergrad.Classes/HIP175.S98/index.html Mike Cole, Bruce Jones, and Joshua Polterock Spring 1998 ------------------------------------------------------------------- A bibliometric analysis of select IS journals (added: 19-Jan-2001) http://www.shef.ac.uk/~is/publications/infres/paper88a.html Information Research, Volume 6 No. 1 October 2000 A bibliometric analysis of select information science print and electronic journals in the 1990s, by Wallace Koehler and others ------------------------------------------------------------------- Implications of a Logical Paradox for Computer-Dispensed Justice (added: 19-Jan-2001) http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/documents/disk0/00/00/10/98/index.html Fulda, Joseph S. (1991) Implications of a Logical Paradox for Computer-Dispensed Justice. Journal of Law and Information Science 2:230-232. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Online Tutorial for Information Literacy (added: 19-Jan-2001) http://tilt.lib.utsystem.edu/ Free tutorial on using information resources, particularly in a library setting ------------------------------------------------------------------- Usability Metrics (added: 20-Jan-2001) http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20010121.html Although measuring usability can cost four times as much as conducting qualitative studies (which often generate better insight), metrics are sometimes worth the expense. Among other things, metrics can help managers track design progress and support decisions about when to release a product. ------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this mailing list, just visit: http://www.gise.org/cgi-sys/cgiwrap/elicohen/links/subscribe.cgi?action=unsubscribe&email=hilf@merlin.physik.uni-oldenburg.de