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Business Library
Dun & Bradstreet Industry Handbook: Computers & Software and Broadcasting & Telecommunications
3rd Floor Paterno Library: HF5035.D85
Encyclopedia of Information Systems
Business Library, Reference: T58.5.E535
Encyclopedia of Emerging Industries
3rd Floor Paterno Library: HD2324.E527
Encyclopedia of Management
Business Library, Reference: HD30.15.E49
Plunkett's Infotech Industry Almanac
Business Library, Reference: HD9696.C63U5287
North American Industry Classification System United States
Business Library, Reference: HF1041.5.N634
Plunkett's Infotech Industry Almanac
Lists the leading firms in the movement and management of voice, data, and video.
Business Library, Reference: HD9696.C63U5287
Accenture
Accenture is a global management consulting and technology services company.
Analysis International Corporation
Contract programming, consulting, and systems design for computer users in business, government, and industry.
Ciber, Inc.
Ciber provides strategic information technology consulting, multi-line ERP consulting, and professional staff supplemental services that include computer network services.
Deloitte Consulting
Business contract consulting firm; systems analysts and programmer analysts
International Business Machines USA (IBM)
IBM provides information systems management, computer consulting, and enterprise resource systems to businesses in several countries. The IBM USA website provides Linux operating system case studies; business application solutions, and information for the open source community.
Keane, Inc.
This firm specializes in helping businesses gain value from information systems through planning, building, and managing application software.
Level (3) Communications
Level 3 (NASDAQ: LVLT) is a very large international communications and information services company providing wholesale dial-up services to ISPs, internet connectivity for broadband to cable and DSL partners, and provides a host of services to nine of the world's largest telecom carriers.
Oracle
Oracle provides a host of database, application, and development tools to small and mid-size businesses.
SAP (Systems, Applications and Products in Data Processing)
SAP is recognized as a large inter-business enterprise software provider to government agencies and large corporations globally.
Systems Research and Applications International (SRA)
SRA International is a provider of information technology services and solutions that include strategic consulting; systems design; development and integration; operations management; and outsourcing to clients in national security, civil government, and health care. The company delivers business solutions fro text and data mining, contingency planning; enterprise architecture; network operations and management; and enterprise systems management.
Bureau of Economic Analysis
This agency, located within the U.S. Department of Commerce, has a mandate to collect economic data.
C-NET News
Guide to news and information related to technology companies.
Management Information Systems Research Network
The BizTech Network provides channels to business technology, e-Business, 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 Books Online
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 & Poor's NetAdvantage
This full-text database is the electronic version of several leading Standard & 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.
Core journal titles relevant to MIS studies that are available online to researchers with a Penn State Access Account. 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.
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) concentrates on the management of computer systems. Articles cover computer architecture, operating systems, and computer networks.
ACM Transactions on Information Systems
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) circulates scholarly research on the design, performance, and evaluation of computer information systems. The articles target information retrieval, interfaces, and information systems applications.
Computers in Industry
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.
Database for Advances in Information Systems
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.
eWeek
This journal reports on companies that supply hardware, software, and applications hosting to e-businesses.
Information and Management
This work is targeted for the senior managers, database administrators, and analysts who "design, implement, and manage information systems applications." The journal covers developments in information systems and their implementation for business strategies.
Information Systems
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.
Information Systems Journal
This journal promotes the study and interest in information systems and features articles that reflect the extensive nature of the subject.
Journal of Management Information Systems
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.
AISnet
Founded in 1994, the Association for Information Systems (AIS) is a professional global organization for academics who specialize in information systems.
Byte Digest
Publishes articles about technical information
Information Week
This journal is part of the Tech Web Business Technology Network with a focus on issues pertaining to hardware, software, security, industries, business services, and career development.
