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I am pleased to announce the publication of the first edition of *MISQ Discovery," an electronic publishing outlet of the Management Information Systems Quarterly. "MISQ Discovery" was first described in the editors statement of our June 1995 issue. It is intended to harness the MIS Quarterly's reputation for quality to the critical mission of creating a new intellectual infrastructure. "MISQ Discovery" also provides opportunities to explore new possibilities for the creation and dissemination of knowledge, a topic that has been previously addressed in the MIS Quarterly(Ives, 1994; Ives and Zmud, 1994; Watson, 1994).
Works published in "MISQ Discovery" will be abstracted in MIS Quarterly, be listed in MIS Quarterly's table of contents, and carry MIS Quarterly volume and issue numbers. From the perspective of the Quarterly, this is a new department that joins our existing departments. Via its presence on the world wide web (WWW) at http://www.misq.org/discovery/home.html, "MISQ Discovery" also presents the image of a standalone publication.
"MISQ Discovery" is free of many of the...