Research articles and areas

You will find articles in academic journals via the UCD Library pages, making sure you are logged into UCD Connect first so that the University's journal access permission is activated.

Two sites worth looking at for both themes and research paper template (look for submission guidelines).
The AIS hosts a digital library, publicly searchable. The AIS library is available at
http://aisel.aisnet.org/ (access is restricted to members of the AIS)

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