Reference Resources for COM Students

LTU Library Catalog and Online Resources

• LTU Library Web Page - Catalog of LTU holdings as well as federated searching of book and journal holdings in thousands of libraries worldwide with tools such as WorldCat and FirstSearch
• Google Scholar - Test out this beta product from Google that indexes academic papers

APA Style Resources
Special thanks to Professor Richard Bush for recommending many of these resources.

• APA Form and Style Nuances - summary with examples of nuances
  APA Style Form Guide - Based on the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association 4th ed. (1994)
• APA Style Homepage - A new edition of APA's Publication Manual
• Citing Sources in APA Style - From Indiana University
• APA "Citation Machine" - form-driven service to produce properly formatted citations.
• Documenting Electronic Sources -  From St. Mary's University
• Guide for Writing Research Papers, APA-Style - Provides instruction on basic research techniques and paper fomatting
• UW-Madison Writing Center Writer's Handbook - From The University of Wisconsin
• Using APA Format - From Purdue University's Online Writing Lab
• USM Libraries - APA Style Guide - From the University of Southern Mississippi
• Web Extension to APA Style - proposed standard for referencing on-line documents

DMIT/DBA Dissertation Resources

• Writing and Presenting Your Thesis or Dissertation - An excellent guide prepared by Dr. Joseph Levine of Michigan State University
• Writing a Research Paper - From Purdue University's Online Writing Lab
• http://www.statsoft.com/textbook/stathome.html - Provides a complete electronic statistics textbook
• http://library.miami.edu/netguides/psymeth.html - Provides links to research sites, on-line statistical software and calculators, books, journals, and other research resources
• http://healthcare.isixsigma.com/tt/calculators/ - Provides several statistical calculators specific to Six Sigma initiatives
• http://data.fas.harvard.edu/micah_altman/socsci.shtml - Impoverished Social Scientists' Guide to Free Statistical Software
• http://members.aol.com/johnp71/javasta2.html - Free statistical software
• http://data.fas.harvard.edu/micah_altman/socsci.shtml - "The Impoverished Social Scientist's Guide to Free Statistical Software and Resources" assembled by Micah Altman of Harvard University

Writing and Presentation Resources

• Guide To Paraphrasing: Writing In Your Own Words - From Purdue University's Online Writing Lab
• PowerPoint Writing Library - From Purdue University's Online Writing Lab
• Effective Presentations - Collections of materials from Stanford University

Management Information Systems

• College of Management IT Reference Resources 
• Analyst Views
• Association for Computing Machinery
• ACM Digital Library - full-text of a wide range current and archival ACM publications
• Association for Information Systems
• Association for Information Technology Professionals
• Ann Arbor IT Zone - The IT Zone sponsors numerous educational and networking oportunities in support of technology entrepreneurs.
• Automation Alley - Southeast Michigan’s Automation Alley is one of the most respected and fastest growing technology business clusters in the nation
• Business Process Trends
• CIO Magazine
• Datamation
• Enterprise Systems
• First Monday
• IBM Technical Journals
• Idea Group Publishing
• Information Systems Security Association - Motor City Chapter
• Information Week
• InfoWorld
• Institute for Certification of Computer Professionals
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• International Journal of Technology and Design Education
• IEEE - Organizational activities, publications, and standards
• ISWORLD
• itmWEB: IT Resources Link Collection - The web site provides a wide range of useful resources for research papers.
• Journal of Global Information Technology Management
• Journal of Informatics Education Research
• Journal of Management Information Systems
• Journal of Systems and Software
• MIS Quarterly
• MITechNews.com - Michigan Technology News
• Software Practice and Experience

Finance

• Journal of Finance

Marketing

• American Marketing Association

Project Management

• Baseline Magazine
• Gantthead.com
• Project Management Institute - Great Lakes Chapter
• Students of Project Management
• Non-Profit Management

HRM/Organizational Behavior

• Academy of Management

Accounting

• American Accounting Association

Operations Management

• INFORMS
• Business Process Management Initiative