MIS: Database & Journals Information

Websites and Databases

Bureau of Economic Analysis
This agency, located within the U.S. Department of Commerce, has a mandate to collect economic data.

CNET News
Guide to news and information related to technology companies.

Management Information Systems Research Network
The BizTech Network provides channels to business technology, eBusiness, and knowledge management; books, analysis, news, and information; and links to jobs, events, and the online community.

News Factor Network
A network of business and technology Websites covering news; namely, e-commerce, e-business, Linux, wireless, WiFi, and Customer Relationship Management (CRM).

North American Industry Classification System
NAICS United States

Safari
Safari is an electronic reference library for programmers and IT professionals. It provides e-books in technology from major Information Technology publishers such as O'Reilly, Sams, and Que.

Standard and Poor's Net Advantage
This full-text database is the electronic version of several leading Standard and Poor publications, including industry surveys, trends, and references.

Value Line
This database provides industry analysis, financial reports, and company information that can be queried by sectors within the industry.

ZDNet
This website provides news, analysis, and enterprise resource planning case studies.

Selected Electronic Journals

Supply Chain Journals

Below is a listing of the core journal titles relevant to MIS studies that are available online to authorized Penn State users. Please note: the link may, in some cases, take you to the database that contains the journal. Within that database, repeat your journal title search.

The Association for Computing Machinery concentrates on the management of computer systems. Articles cover computer architecture, operating systems, and computer networks.

The Association for Computing Machinery circulates scholarly research on the design, performance, and evaluation of computer information systems. The articles target information retrieval, interfaces, and information systems applications.

Papers in the journal focus primarily on the "unique application of ICT (Information and Communication Technology) in business process such as design, engineering, manufacturing, purchasing, physical distribution, production management and supply chain management." Most of the Articles are technical and generally require a strong background in information systems and computer science, making this strictly a scholar's journal.

This journal encompasses database management and the development of information systems. The articles feature algorithms designed for data retrieval; user interface applications that cradle, query, and manage data; data protection and security; and other database management issues.

This journal reports on companies that supply hardware, software, and applications hosting to e-Businesses.

This work is targeted for the senior managers, database administrators, and analysts who "design, implement and manage information systems applications." The journal covers the area of developments in information systems and their implantation for business strategies.

Information Systems publishes articles concerning the design and implementation of languages, data models, algorithms, software and hardware for information systems. Subject areas include data management issues as well as data-related issues from the fields of data mining, information retrieval, internet data management, visual and audio information systems, scientific computing, and organizational behavior.

This journal promotes the study and interest in information systems and to feature articles that reflect the extensive nature of the subject.

This is a scholarly journal with the purpose of generating articles relevant to the study of organizational information systems. Each issue contains eight to ten articles discussing topics like software project risk management, group support systems, and information technology's impact on quality and customer service.

Selected Trade Journals

AISnet
Founded in 1994, the Association for Information Systemsis a professional global organization for academics that specialize in Information Systems.

Byte Digest
This digest publishes articles about technical information

Information Week
This journal is part of the Tech Web Business Technology Network and focus on issues pertaining to hardware; software; security; industries; business services; and career development.