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Policies for Journal of the Association for Information Systems

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Archiving

As part of its mission, JAIS will maintain a digital archive of all published articles.

Author Information

Articles are to be submitted to JAIS online review system http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jais.

The official language of the JAIS 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. At the submission, the authors must certify 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 statistical validity of empirical studies and meta-analyses, JAIS requests authors of submissions which use SEM techniques to provide a full correlation matrix or covariation matrix as a part of articles (in appendix). In addition, Senior Editors 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 manuscript. 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 SE knows the names of all involved. Therefore, the authors should write their submission and use references in ways which do not reveal their identities.

Format Requirements

Prospective authors for JAIS publications should follow the JAIS Submission Style document and follows JAIS reference style.

JAIS Data Policies

JAIS promotes careful, systematic, open and efficient use of all types of data sets- quantitative and qualitative- for theory development and validation. It also seeks to promote open and critical data sharing and triangulation across IS scholars and study sites. Therefore it looks favorably to studies which use the same data set to vindicate or falsify a theory or to develop a new one when the use of the same or quite similar data set is justified. JAIS does not accept or support the use of data in ways as outlined in http://www.misq.org/archivist/vol/no30/issue4/EdCommentsV30N4.pdf. To this end authors need to recognize the following policies with regard to use of their data sets while submitting to JAIS:

1) All authors using empirical data sets have to make them available on request for checking by senior editors or reviewers after care has been taken to anonymize the data. In quantitative papers using variance based methods and data sets the authors are requested always as a minimum to provide the co-variance or correlation matrix plus descriptives (scale range, means, SDs, etc.). When authors re-analyze earlier data sets, they also need to demonstrate that their use of these data sets does not increase significantly the likelihood of Type I errors in hypothesis testing. For data derived from qualitative studies authors need to be able to indicate how the data has been obtained and what steps have been taken to verify its accuracy.

2) Authors need to communicate clearly during submission whether the data set has been used before and where. In addition, they need demonstrate either in the submitted article or in a separate note that the use of the same data set is warranted because it:

a) serves alternative theoretical purposes either involving development of new or different theory, measures or constructs, integrating them differently, or falsifying or refining earlier results with other data sets; or

b) it involves an application of a new and innovative methodological approach with clear methodological or theoretical benefits when applied to the same data set.

3) All data sets collected or applied need to meet established criteria for data privacy, confidentiality and recognition of study subjects rights as outlined e.g. in:

http://www.amstat.org/committees/cmtepc/index.cfm?fuseaction=1

http://ethics.gc.ca/eng/policy-politique/tcps-eptc/section3-chapitre3/

4) JAIS and AIS accept no responsibility regarding the accuracy of data provided by authors of papers they publish, nor any liability for consequences related to the publication and/or use of those data.

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.

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 JAIS 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

Subscriptions

All members of the Association for Information Systems receive complementary subscriptions to JAIS. 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.