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This page contains information about the ISWorld List, a mailing list designed to serve the needs of the Information Systems academic community. The list is supported and funded by the Association for Information Systems, with resources provided by University College Dublin and the Information Systems Research Center at the University of Houston.
The ISWORLD list was founded in November 1994 by John Mooney at University College Dublin. The initial subscription was drawn from an amalgamation of the ICIS-L list, then maintained by Rick Watson at the University of Georgia, and the CIS-L list, then maintained by Al Bento at the University of Baltimore. In December 1994, ISWorld had 1,384 subscribers across 32 countries.
The ISWorld list has been managed by the following individuals:
»1994 to 1999: John Mooney
»1999 to 2002: Gabe Piccoli
»2002 to 2004: Andrew Schwarz
»2004 to present: Rick Taylor
[Policy and Intended Usage]
[Conditions of Use]
[Joining the list]
[Sending a Message to subscribers]
[Changing your Address]
[List Options and Useful Commands]
[Unsubscribing]
[Finding Past Messages]
1. The ISWorld List is primarily for use by Information Systems faculty, doctoral students, and researchers.
2. The purpose of the ISWorld List is to be a broadcast medium for IS-related information of interest to, and relevant for, members of the IS academic community.
3. AIS does not publish messages on the ISWorld List: AIS and the ISWorld List service providers provide facilities that enable ISWorld subscribers who originate content to publish that content on the ISWorld List.
4. Only ISWorld subscribers may distribute messages over ISWorld.
5. The ISWorld List should not be used as a forum for discussion, unless that discussion is directly IS-related and is of significant importance to a large majority of ISWorld subscribers.
6. The ISWorld List should not be used to advertise events, items or services that are marketed to generate profit, without advance written permission of the AIS President.
7. The ISWorld list should not be used for personal communication (e.g. change of contact details) or self-promotion.
8. The ISWorld list should not be used to distribute file attachments. Instead, a message containing a URL to the file may be distributed.
9. The ISWorld List should not be used for student exercises.
10. The ISWorld List should not be used for repeated distribution of the same information.
11. Organizers of non-AIS conferences that are of interest to the IS community are permitted to distribute one call for papers (CFP) for their conference, plus one submission deadline reminder AND one message relating to registration/program information plus one reminder. This policy specifically denies CFP postings by individual tracks within a conference. Multi-track conferences should co-ordinate a
single ISWorld posting containing URLs to further detailed information.
12. In order to minimize the level of superfluous postings, while maintaining the dynamics of an unmoderated list, replies to messages posted on the List are by default sent only to the Sender of the original posting.
13. AIS reserves the right to edit or amend ISWorld List policy.
If you have any doubt regarding the appropriateness of your posting, feel free to contact the Vice President of Communications of the Association for Information Systems.
The ISWorld list is part of the ISWorld Net initiative designed to provide a single entry point to intellectual resources related to information systems technology and to promote the development of an international information infrastructure for creating, disseminating, and applying knowledge.
ISWorld subscribers must agree to the following Conditions of Use to confirm the distribution of a message to the ISWorld List.
Senders must confirm that they accept the List Usage Policy and Conditions:
1. The Sender acknowledges that he or she is the publisher of the message to be distributed on the ISWorld List. AIS and the ISWorld List service providers take no responsibility for the content of any message, unless it is directly disseminated by AIS.
2. The Sender acknowledges that (i) the ISWorld List is not moderated, (ii) all messages will be automatically distributed in unedited form to all ISWorld subscribers, (iii) the content of the messages is limited to information systems matters, and (iv) the message has a subject line that clearly reflects the content of the message.
3. The Sender warrants that the content of the message is not (i) confidential, (ii) in violation of any copyright law, (iii) defamatory, or (iv) in violation of any other law.
4. The Sender warrants that the message is not inflammatory, offensive, or political in content, tone or implication to any member of the diverse, global, and multi-cultural ISWorld community.
5. The Sender warrants that the content distributed is in the public domain, or that the Sender owns copyright in the material, or has a licence to publish the material.
6. The Sender warrants that information contained within the posting has not been previously distributed over ISWorld. Individuals who are uncertain whether their posting has been successfully distributed should check the online archive to verify, rather than distributing the message a second time.
7. Individuals using ISWorld to solicit information from the ISWorld community agree to provide the community with a summary of the responses obtained, either by distributing the summary through ISWorld, or by distributing a URL for the summary.
8. The Sender indemnifies AIS and the ISWorld List service providers against any liabilities that either may incur as a result of any message sent by the Sender.
9. At the discretion of the President of AIS or the ISWorld List manager, AIS reserves the right to temporarily or permanently unsubscribe any ISWorld subscriber who fails to abide by these conditions, and also to remove any postings from archives of the ISWorld List with or without cause.
To join ISWorld, using a computer with Internet access:
1) Point your browser to the ISWorldNet Faculty Directory. Submit your entry and make sure that you are listed. After you ensure that you are listed,
2) Point your browser to the web-based interface for the ISWorld list. When you have arrived at this location, click on the "Join isworld" button, which will take you to the form where you can fill out in the necessary registration information.
Once you send a subscription request, the request will be forwarded to the list manager for approval. You will also receive a message stating that your request has been received. The list manager will review your request and if you are approved, you will be added to the list.
Please join the ISWorldNet Faculty Members Directory, prior to submitting your request.
Registering in the directory will sensibly speed up your subscription process. Moreover, the directory is an invaluable resource for connecting IS faculty around the world. I am sure that you will find the little time investment necessary to sign up well worth it!
Please note: Since ISWorld accepts postings only from subscribed members, you must send messages to ISWorld from the address that you initially subscribed from. If you attempt to send messages from another address it will be returned to you by the listserv. So, be sure to choose the e-mail address for your messages based upon the address that you will use to submit your messages.
All messages must be in compliance with the ISWorld List Policies and Conditions of Use described above.
To distribute a message to all the people currently subscribed to the ISWorld list, send the message to the list address: isworld@lyris.isworld.org.
Given the large membership of this list, we wish to minimize the level of superfluous postings while maintaining the dynamics of an unmoderated list. Replies to messages posted on the list are by default sent only to the sender of the original posting. We have adopted this policy on the basis that with previous lists, the majority of replies to original postings were not intended for the entire list, and bothersome to the majority of list members. If you think that your reply to an initial posting is of interest to the community at large, you may broadcast your comments by explicitly addressing the reply to the list.
You should NOT send any commands to the list address, but log on to your account through the web-based interface. Sending commands to the list address will result in the command itself being distributed to each member of the list. There are two negative outcomes of doing this. First, you immediately become quite unpopular with the esteemed list members for generating "junk e-mail." Second, the command will have no effect, since it will not have been received by the listserv software. All commands should be managed through your personal web interface.
To avoid problems with expired accounts, unreachable accounts and the like, it is advisable that when you move to a new organization or your main address changes, you modify your subscription to the list. We strongly encourage you not to forward your messages from the old address to the new address to avoid problems such as rejected postings, reception of double postings, and the likes. To change your address, you do not need to unsubscribe and re-subscribe as the listserv can easily handle changes of address. Simply log back into the web interface, select “Your settings” and change your e-mail address.
The listserv software was designed to offer the users (that's you!!) full control over their account. Thus, you can easily manage your subscription from the web interface. You can set subscription option, such as requesting a digest format, requesting acknowledgement of your postings, requesting to receive or not receive your own postings, and many others.
You can also manage your subscription. You can obviously subscribe and unsubscribe, but you can also modify your name, you can change your address (very useful for those university hopping experiences), etc.
To sign off ISWorld, log back into the web interface and select the option to “Leave unsubscribe)”.
You can search all of the past archives of ISWorld messages (since the conception of the list) through the web-based interface.
Historical postings can be retrieved through the structured Web-Based Archives maintained by Ron Weber and Sophie Cockcroft at the University of Queensland. Here you can access a chronological list of postings within the categories of: Research Information, Teaching Information, IS Community Announcements, Job Positions, and Journals' Table of Contents.