Research in IT – Call for Papers

One venue for publishing IT research is the SIGITE peer-reviewed electronic publication, Research in IT. Manuscripts are accepted for publication year-round. Submit your papers to the Research in IT Editor, Robert Friedman (rsfit@uw.edu).

Past copies of Research in IT can be found here.

SIGITE is also in the initial stages of starting an IT Research conference.

What is IT Research?

Information Technology is an anomaly within academia whereby it was created as an academic discipline out of a need for IT graduates. Most academic disciplines instead are created out of a new research stream. SIGITE is currently heavily involved in identifying IT research. It has been found that much/most of this research is being done “at the seams” of other computing disciplines. In order for IT as an academic discipline to grow, the identification and nurturing of this research must continue.

The discussions around IT research at the SIGITE conferences have found that while IT research is being done (several graduate programs in IT exist) by graduate students and faculty, much of it goes unpublished. One theory as to why this is happening is because most IT graduate students go into industry, where it is unnecessary that they publish their research, rather than staying in academia. It is the responsibility of IT faculty to encourage/require graduate students to submit their research for publication.

For ideas from which to build upon IT research, an online repository has been created by SIGITE members. Faculty are encouraged to require students to submit their research to this repository to build upon the IT research body.