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This week’s Times Higher Education features an article on the UK RAE which cites a forthcoming paper by Ray Paul from EJIS 17.4. To read a preview of the EJIS paper ‘Measuring research quality: The United Kingdom Government’s Research Assessment Exercise’ click here.

To read the Times Higher Education piece, click here

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• Thank you to Ray…

  Palgrave Macmillan extends its heartiest thanks to Ray Paul for his seven amazing years of contribution to EJIS as Chairman of the Editorial Board; as Co-Editor, and lastly as Editor-in-Chief.

  Ray has pushed hard to continually develop and expand EJIS. His editorial mantra of 'What story are you trying to tell the reader?; What will the reader know after reading your paper that they did not know before?, and 'Why should anyone believe you?' has guided many an EJIS contributor.

• Richard Baskerville

  Richard Baskerville is a Professor in the Department of Computer Information Systems, J. Mack Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University. His research specializes in security of information systems, methods of information systems design and development, and the interaction of information systems and organizations. Baskerville is the author of more than 100 articles in scholarly journals, practitioner magazines, and edited books. Baskerville's practical and consulting experience includes advanced information system designs for the U.S. Defense and Energy Departments. He is a former chair of the Department and of the International Federation for Information Processing Working Group on Information Systems and Organizations, a Chartered Engineer under the British Engineering Council, a member of The British Computer Society and Certified Computer Professional by the Institute for Certification of Computer Professionals. Baskerville holds degrees from the University of Maryland (B.S. summa cum laude, Management), and the London School of Economics, University of London (M.Sc., Analysis, Design and Management of Information Systems, Ph.D., Systems Analysis). He has held numerous visiting faculty appointments including Bocconi University, Copenhagen Business School, Curtin University, The University of Paris Dauphine, The University of Pretoria, and The University of Sydney.

• Hans van der Heijden

  EJIS also welcomes Hans van der Heijden, Head of Division of Management and Professor of Management Information Systems at University of Surrey to his new role of Editor of EJIS.

In European Journal of Information Systems 16.1 we publish a Special Section on the European Information Systems Academy.

Two of the papers are on separate analyses of the European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), and the third examines the dominant North American view of IS scholarship and uses European scholarly journals to show the benefits of a more inclusive approach to IS scholarship.

In the words of our editor Ray Paul, “These papers in this special section also provide an impetus to potential further research on this topic. Is IS scholarly activity different in different regions of the world, and if so, why would this be? Does the increasing drive to assess, quality assure, benchmark, appraise, evaluate etc. drive all scholarly publication into a narrow insular academic straightjacket, or can the diversity of views and approaches be maintained or even increased for the health of IS as a subject.” Access the Special Section on the European Information Systems Academy in EJIS 16.1. to view these papers

Audience

Information systems professionals in industry, commerce, government and academic departments of management, business and computing.