Theory-W Software Project Management Principles and Examples
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Communications of the ACM - Special issue on computer graphics: state of the arts
Work group structure and information technology: a structural contingency approach
Intellectual teamwork
How much is information systems research addressing key practitioner concerns?
ACM SIGMIS Database
Rigor and relevance in MIS research: beyond the approach of positivism alone
MIS Quarterly - Special issue on intensive research in information systems
Open source movements as a model for organising
European Journal of Information Systems
On site: global perceptions of IS journals
Communications of the ACM
Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web by Its Inventor
Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web by Its Inventor
The Cathedral and the Bazaar
Objective quality ranking of computing journals
Communications of the ACM - Service-oriented computing
ACM SIGMOD Record
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
Communications of the ACM - Human-computer etiquette
Assessing the value of IS journals
Communications of the ACM - Interaction design and children
Examining differences across journal rankings
Communications of the ACM - Medical image modeling
Assessing the relative influence of journals in a citation network
Communications of the ACM
Communications of the ACM - Two decades of the language-action perspective
European Journal of Information Systems
Editor's comments: between a rock and a hard spot
MIS Quarterly
Full access and review: applying socio-technical practice to academia
SIGITE '08 Proceedings of the 9th ACM SIGITE conference on Information technology education
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While over the last decade computing practitioners created new, innovative applications like online auctions, blogs, wikis, chat, social networks and social book-marking, computing academia has innovated much less. The resulting theory/practice divide in computing can be attributed to the effect on academic creativity of the myth that rigor is excellence. The use of publishing to appoint positions, promote for tenure and allocate grants supports the current "gatekeeper" academic publishing model. This is not only based on print-publishing limits that no longer apply, but also incorrect as it ignores the 'Type II" error of rejecting useful knowledge. Modern social computing suggests how to reinvent the academic knowledge exchange system (KES) to innovate and disseminate as well as discriminate. Building upon existing successful knowledge repositories like the Los Alamos archive suggests an open electronic KES that not only increases dissemination (by publishing all) but also increases discrimination (by rating all). This suggests that the Information Technology (IT) discipline should balance rigor and relevance to create knowledge growth, as do systems like Wikipedia, rather than follow the gatekeeper model, e.g. create an electronic portal open to all multi-disciplinary knowledge travelers at the nexus of technology use.