From the editors

ABSTRACT

We head into our second issue as Editors with changes, improvements, and plenty of excitement!

First, we’ve enlisted new colleagues to our Editorial Board. As we expand topical coverage, and expand our global reach, we’ll need more help vetting your manuscripts. We want to invite more technical content to our pages, more international content, and content from new colleagues in different parts of the world. We're inviting several new Senior Editors onto the board to help us with this expansion.

Professor Laku Chidambaram comes to us with excellent editorial experience, including his ongoing work as Executive Editor of eService Journal and responsibilities as AMCIS program Co-Chair. He brings special expertise in virtual groups, group decision support and computer mediated communications to his new position as Senior Editor on our board.

Professor Hock Hai Teo is widely known and respected, world-wide. His home base in Asia gives us important new Senior Editor coverage for this important part of our new coverage. He is technically-versed, and will be a valuable addition to our growing organization here at The-Database.org.

Professor George Marakas is an iconic theorist in our field. To support our growth in papers that develop and propose dynamic new behavioral theories of information systems, Dr. Marakas brings his unique views and capabilities to our growing board as a new Senior Editor.

Professor Paul Pavlou is a rising young star in the field. While we hope the flattery does not make him uncomfortable, our experience has been that he is a superbly qualified editor and reviewer, and we are pleased to welcome him to the board as Senior Editor.

As we look to the future, we anticipate with great enthusiasm Dr. Allen Hevner’s special issue on Systems Testing. Professor Hevner is known world-wide for his expertise in development and testing, and we are honored that he has agreed to serve as Guest Editor for this important special issue, due out late this year.

Lastly, Patrick and I are happy to report that we have, as of this year’s first issue, been under review and are nearing completion of evaluation by Thomson ISI for purposes of including Data Base in regular surveying and reporting for the important Social Sciences Citation Index and the associated Journal Citation Report. That process should be complete toward the end of this year.

We continue to rely on the submission of your best research to our new online publication portal, which can be accessed by links on The-DataBase.org, or directly at http://www.editorialmanager.com/sigmis-db/. Even if you’re not quite ready to submit a new manuscript to us, do visit the online portal and register yourself as a potential author and reviewer.

And, with very best regards from our publication offices in Memphis, for your continuing support, we say, "Thank you...thank you very much."

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