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.
• UW-Madison Writing Center Writer's Handbook - From The University of Wisconsin
• Using APA Format - From Purdue University's Online Writing Lab
• 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://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
• Minitab Podcast #1 - Produced by Dr. Matthew Cole. This podcast will guide you step-by-step in using Minitab for the first time. Topics include:
  • Coding and recoding
  • Cumulative freuency distributions
  • Mean, median, and standard deviation with 95% confidence interval
  • Boxplot, bar chart, pie chart, histogram with customized class intervals
  • Class intervals, including insturctions for using Minitab macro on creating class intervals
  • Scatter plot
  • Calculate average growth rate using geometric mean
    

Management Information Systems

• College of Management IT Reference Resources 
• 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 opportunities 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
• IBM Technical Journals
• Idea Group Publishing
• Information Systems Security Association - Motor City Chapter
• 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
• itmWEB: IT Resources Link Collection - The web site provides a wide range of useful resources for research papers.
• Journal of Systems and Software
• Software Practice and Experience

Finance

• Journal of Finance

 Marketing

• American Marketing Association

 Project Management

• Baseline Magazine
• Gantthead.com
• Project Management Institute - Great Lakes Chapter

HRM/Organizational Behavior

• Academy of Management

 Globalization

• The Economist

Operations Management

• Business Process Management Initiative