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IS 483 Information Services and Operations

On Line Resources
(See weekly packets for links to required readings)

Links to useful resources --
 for a particular topic the resource covers, use the resource's search feature.

A useful search engine for finding articles  www.findarticles.com

A new search engine for finding research in the business area is http://www.authorityfinder.com/

The Darwin Leadership and Management Learning Center on Change Management which publishes a monthly web magazine devoted to change  in the IT area.. Has extensive links to other change management items.
http://www.darwinmag.com/learn/leadership/change.html

This search engine for finding vendor research on numerous course topics  http://www.bitpipe.com/data/web/bp/bp_index.jsp

The Reengineering Resource Center is devoted to BPR (Business Process Reengineering) type issues and
  has some great articles on that and related topics: 
http://www.reengineering.com/articles/index.htm

To find a multitude of articles that TechRepublic has published, here is the search site:
http://researchindex.techrepublic.com/ 

To get to TechRepublic and signup for their lists:
http://www.techrepublic.com

Some great web sites--

• Periodicals
  • InformationWeek   http://www.informationweek.com/
  • Computerworld    http://www.computerworld.com/
  • Datamation        http://datamation.com/
  • Evolving Enterprise.  http://lionhrtpub.com/ee.html
  • CIO Magzine       http://www.cio.com/ 
     
• Associations
  • APICS- Educational Society for Resource Management   http://www.apics.org/
  • Canadian Association of Logistics Management         http://www.calm.org/
     
• Essential Links that TechRepublic Uses
  • CIO Essentials
     
• DePaul Library Sources
  • The library is accessed through
    http://www.lib.depaul.edu/
  • The library's research is accessed through
    http://www.lib.depaul.edu/research.htm
  • The library's research databases are accessed through
    http://www.lib.depaul.edu/eresource/database.asp
  • The Gartner and DataPro database of articles and briefings are accessed through
     to get to http://www.lib.depaul.edu/eresource/database.asp#g
    

 The Panel Briefing Assignments
 -- Reserving Source Documents for Assignment 2 :

 ---Find:  one web document that is at least the length specified 
      or   two (2) documents that together meet the length specification
     that discuss some aspect of the topic that you have chosen 
   ---   The chosen document 
                  IS NOT on the course required reading list
          and  IS NOT on the course recommended reading lists (no exceptions) 

--To Reserve your web document 
--- log on to Course On Line (COL) 
--- click on View My Courses
--- click on the section you are in (IS 483 801, IS 483 802 or  IS 483 803)
--- click on Communication Tools
--- click on Discussion Forum
--- click on Panel Topic Selections
--- find the message that has the corresponding Topic Number and 
       click on it
--- click on the Reply button
--- enter the name of the article(s); their URLs and your name