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JAIS Policy
| About AIS Publications | | The Association for Information Systems (AIS) will publish two electronic journals beginning in 1999 - The Journal of AIS and the Communications of AIS. These journals are designed to be complementary and the first part of this statement of editorial policy is common to both. In content, each will fulfill the role usually associated with the terms "journal" and "communications". The Journal will be a classical, peer reviewed outlet for research with every intention of being equal to the best in the field. The Communications is intended to foster the free flow of ideas within the IS community. Its emphasis will be on originality, importance, and cogency of ideas. It will also be a vehicle for tutorials, curriculum guidelines, case studies, survey articles, and other materials of general interest to the IS community.
Articles should be submitted to one of the journals in accordance with its content and the manner in which the authors wish to have the submission processed. In case of doubt as to which journal is most appropriate for a particular article, it may be submitted to either, with the editors then selecting the most suitable outlet.
JAIS is theory focused journal. Therefore, JAIS does not publish or review manuscripts that focus solely on a specific steps or techniques associated with research methodologies. For example, manuscripts, which reveal or discuss barriers in reaching statistical conclusion validity, or which provide guidelines or tutorials for conducting research following a specific research approach are not reviewed. JAIS does not deny the high value of such articles for the IS community, but recommends, instead, that such articles are to be submitted to the Communications of the Association for Information Systems for review. JAIS welcomes, however, manuscripts where the applied method or methodology is inherently related to ongoing theory formulation or validation. These manuscripts need to demonstrate, for example, how a specific methodology choice can confound or promote various aspects of theory building or theory testing, and where the study results and / or theoretical implications would be demonstrably different depending on the methodology choices. In cases where the authors are in doubt of the appropriateness of their manuscript for JAIS we ask the authors to consult the Editor In Chief. |
| Electronic Publication | | Both journals will be delivered to subscribers electronically. There will be no paper copy! The entire publication process from submission, through review, revision, and final edit will be electronic. Electronic publication has a number of implications:
- The cycle from submission to delivery will be shortened. Every effort will be made to ensure that reviews are submitted in a timely manner; once an article has been accepted for publication, there will be no need to wait for the next available issue after such and such a number of publication cycles. Given the nature of the delivery system, articles will be delivered to subscribers immediately when they become available. The numbering system will be Vol. X (year), No. y. For example, the third article in 1999 will be Volume 1 (1999), No. 3.
- Authors will be required to adhere strictly to the publication guidelines in terms of software and text formats to facilitate the rapid turnaround which we intend to make a hallmark of these publications. We will also provide Style Sheets to further expedite production of articles that conform to our standards.
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| Editorial Board | | There is a Senior Editorial Board for AIS Publications and an editorial board for each journal. The editorial board membership is accessible at this location. In addition to the JAIS Editorial board members, we also invite reviewers from outside. The reviewer list of 2005-2006 is avaliable here. |
| About JAIS | | To promote readership of the Journal, the Editors of JAIS have secured permission from the AIS Council to open the journal's articles to all interested readers. To access any article, please enter "readjais" into the UserID and Password boxes.
The Journal of the Association for Information Systems (Journal of AIS), the flagship research journal of the Association for Information Systems, publishes the highest quality scholarship in the field of information systems. JAIS is inclusive in scope and covers all aspects of Information Systems and Information Technology. The Journal publishes rigorously developed and forward looking conceptual and empirical contributions. The Journal encourages multidisciplinary and nontraditional approaches.
Empirical contributions may use any appropriate methodology as long as the research is soundly designed and executed. The Journal particularly welcomes contributions that provide theoretical insights that advance our understanding of information systems and information technology in organizations and society. New insights may include proposing a new theoretical model, challenging or clarifying existing theory, integrating diverse strands of research in information systems so as to advance new concepts and relationships, or developing a compelling argument for the field to develop a new theory.
Given our inclusive perspective, we refrain from delineating explicit topics in which we are interested.
Journal of AIS articles adhere to the highest scholarly research standards as judged by the leading scholars who serve in the Senior and Editorial Boards. Decisions regarding publication of contributions are made by one of the Senior Editors/Editor based on constructive input and recommendations of members of the Editorial Board. A Senior Editor will occasionally use ad-hoc reviewers to solicit additional input and to develop candidates for subsequent Board appointments. Journal of AIS distinguishes itself by closely working with the authors to develop submitted work. Dialog concerning current and future submissions is encouraged between the Senior Editors/Editor and the author. JAIS employs a double "blind" review process in general. But to manuscripts submitted to the IS Research Perspectives section, we will not use this process unless the authors request a double "blind" reviewing. |
| Archiving | | As part of its mission, the Journal will maintain a digital archive of all published articles.
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| Author Information | | Articles are to be submitted to JAIS online review system http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jais.
The official language of the Journal of AIS is English. Therefore all submissions need to be checked and edited for correct English before submission. To avoid any misunderstanding regarding originality of submission, the authors are expected to provide full information about authorship, pre-submission history, earlier related publications and necessary acknowledgements. Submission to JAIS implies the authors¡¯ certification that the manuscript is not copyrighted and is not currently under review in any other journal or conference.
The bodies of articles may include text, tables, and figures only in order to ensure the widest accessibility even in less technologically endowed environments. The body of the article should represent a stand-alone document. If complex authors can opt to submit text, tables, figures, and appendices in separate files. Links and multimedia supplements should be included in one or more appendices.
To ensure validity of empirical studies and meta-analyses JAIS asks manuscripts which use SEM techniques to provide a full correlation matrix or covariation matrix as a part of articles (appendix). Editors and reviewers can ask authors to provide a complete dataset during the review for testing and validation of executed statistical analyses. In such cases, authors are expected to provide the dataset as a condition for publishing the article.
During submission authors can submit the names of two unbiased reviewers either from the editorial board or outside it whom they think are appropriate and capable for reviewing their manusctip. The senior editor managing the manuscript is not however, bound by such recommendations and can not guarantee that either of the proposed reviewers will be selected.
Reviews in JAIS are double blind. Authors do not know who reviews their paper, and reviewers do not know the names of the authors. The editor knows the names of all involved. Therefore, the authors should write their submission and use referrences in ways which does not reveal their identity.
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| Code of Research Conduct | | All prospective authors must adhere to the AIS Code of Research Conduct in their work. Authors who believe their work has been plagiarized or subjected to other scholarly misconduct are urged to consult Guidelines for a Victim. AIS Council's process for dealing with allegations of scholarly misconduct in the Association's journals and proceedings is detailed in AIS Research Conduct Committee Process Guidelines.
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| Copyright | | Submission of an article to JAIS implies the authors' certification that the manuscript is not copyrighted and is not currently under review by any other journal or conference proceedings.
Copyright to all articles published by the Journal of AIS must be transferred by the authors to AIS prior to publication. Authors will be required to fill out and sign a form to this effect.
Electronic or print copies may be made for non-commercial personal or class-room use. In cases of classroom copies, copyright should be attributed to AIS on each copy.
Authors may include a copy of their article on their Web page as long as it is clearly noted that AIS owns the copyright and use for profit is not allowed. Such an author version must be identical to the final published version, and include a link to JAIS.
Sample of Copyright Release form
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| Subscriptions | | All members of the Association for Information Systems receive complementary subscriptions to the Journal of the AIS. Information and rates about joining AIS is available. Nonmembers of AIS can subscribe to the journal for an annual fee of $40 by going to the journal subscription page. University Library and Multiuser Subscriptions are available to all institutions. Membership in AISW is not required. These subscriptions provide access to anyone accessing the journal from a specific domain such as baylor.edu without having to supply a user id and password. There is no limit to the number of users or concurrent users. The cost for library and multiuser subscriptions is $135 per year. Go to the subscription page. |
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