NJ-ASIS&T: Links

General ASIS Links

American Society for Information Science. This is the website of National ASIS, our parent organization. Listed below are a list of short-cuts to some of the more popular pages on this site.
About ASIS . Brief, but thorough, description of ASIS goals, mission, history, and activities. Contains detailed information about joining ASIS and membership benefits.
ASIS meetings & conferences. Upcoming conferences: programs, calls for participation and/or papers, registration information, guidelines, travel and hotel information . . . Past conferences: programs, reports, proceedings.
ASIS local chapters. The only resource providing cumulated information about ASIS local chapters. Should be considered a valuable link although the information is not always updated.

NJ ASIS&T Publications

The New Jersey Chapter of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 1975-2005: A Historical Note, by Ellen Pozzi and Marija Dalbello, won best Chapter Publication of the Year Award in 2006. It is accessible through dLIST open access repository. This overview of the history of the New Jersey chapter of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T), uses a combination of oral history and archival research to outline the events, figures, and main achievements of the chapter from 1975 to 2005. The chapter was founded through the efforts of a number of individuals who were interested in having a local chapter and a regional presence for information science community of New Jersey. The history was originally published as a hand-numbered limited edition of 100 copies distributed at the celebration of the 30th anniversary of the chapter in February 2006.

Best Chapters' Sites

Information Science: Associations and Organizations

American Library Association
American Society of Indexers
Association for Information Systems
Special Libraries Association
Don't see the organization you are looking for? Try Professional Organizations in the Information Sciences an extensive list of links to Internet sites maintained by various professional organizations in the library and information sciences (from CSU School of Library and Information Science).

Information Science: Publications

Journal of the American Society for Information Science - ASIS' own site. Everything about JASIS can be found there: current issue, tables of contents for previous issues, special topic issues, instructions for contributors and many other things.
Welcome to Journal of the American Society for Information Science - John Wiley & Sons, Inc. page
Books Awaiting Reviewers for the Journal of the American Society for Information Science.
Information Research. An electronic journal published four times a year by the Department of Information Studies, University of Sheffield.
Current Cites An annotated, searchable, monthly bibliography of selected articles, books, and electronic documents on information technology.
DATABASE - claims to be the world's largest information content magazine.
D-Lib Magazine. A single site with monthly stories, commentary, and briefings and a collection of resources for digital library research.