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Informing Science Institute

Exploring Better Ways to Inform

Santa Rosa, CA   |  http://InformingScience.org

Mission

The Informing Science Institute is a global community of academics shaping the future of informing science. Informing Science is the transdisciplinary quest to discover better ways to inform. The Informing Science Institute is a mentoring organization. One of the Informing Science Institute’s core principles is helping our fellow colleagues to become better and better: better as an author, as a reviewer, as an editor, and as an editor-in-chief. ISI encourages the sharing of knowledge and collaboration among the wide variety of fields, often using information technology to advance the multidisciplinary study of informing science. These areas can include Business, Communications, Communicating Meaning, Community and Society, Computer Science, Data Management, Distance Education, eCommerce,

Ruling year info

2019

Executive Director

Professor Eli Boyd Cohen

Main address

131 Brookhill Ct

Santa Rosa, CA 95409 USA

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EIN

83-3131083

NTEE code info

Professional Societies, Associations (V03)

Professional Societies & Associations (B03)

Professional Societies, Associations (U03)

IRS filing requirement

This organization is required to file an IRS Form 990-N.

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Programs and results

What we aim to solve

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

Many teachers, professors, and others are expected by their employers to conduct research and disseminate it in a journal. Yet, in many cases, the employers do not provide resources and education on how to do so. We are established to fill this gap while also mentoring our volunteers.

Our programs

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?

Publish our own academic journals

We publish eight academic journals open access so that scholars from around the world have easy access to their science.

Population(s) Served
Academics
Students

Alumni to our international conference InSITE (http://InSITE.nu) often mention the conference as among the best organized and most supportive conference they have attended.
Typically, the conference begins with optional pre-conference networking opportunities that combine seeing the country, often with talks on country-specific topics of interest, with the hugely important chance to network with potential future research collaborators. The networking enables building the trust relationships needed to sustain long-distance research collaboration.
The conference itself combines tracks of presentations of research papers, plenary sessions that provide for keynote speakers and mini-workshops on topics related to your professional development.
The conference also includes a day of professional development workshops.

Population(s) Served
Academics
Students

Where we work

Our results

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.

number of colleagues who have signed up

This metric is no longer tracked.
Totals By Year
Related Program

Publish our own academic journals

Type of Metric

Output - describing our activities and reach

Direction of Success

Increasing

Number of unique website visitors

This metric is no longer tracked.
Totals By Year
Type of Metric

Output - describing our activities and reach

Direction of Success

Increasing

Number of reports written/published

This metric is no longer tracked.
Totals By Year
Related Program

Publish our own academic journals

Type of Metric

Output - describing our activities and reach

Direction of Success

Holding steady

Our Sustainable Development Goals

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

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Goals & Strategy

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.

Charting impact

Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.

What is your organization aiming to accomplish?
The Informing Science Institute (ISI) is a mentoring organization. One of the Informing Science Institute’s core principles is helping our fellow colleagues to become better and better: better as an author, as a reviewer, as an editor, and as an editor-in-chief. We use the peer review process of our journals to support author colleagues by providing them with constructive suggestions on improving their work even if a submitted article is not accepted for publication. Our Editors-in-Chief assist reviewers and editors by being coaches and guides to the authors, reviewers, and editors.
ISI Research Topics
ISI current focus is to encourage the sharing of knowledge and collaboration among a wide variety of fields, often using information technology to advance the multidisciplinary study of informing science. These areas can include Business, Communications, Communicating Meaning, Community and Society, Computer Science, Data Management, Distance Education, eCommerce, Education, eLearning, Government, Health Care, History, Information and Library Science, Journalism, Justice and Law, Mathematics, Management, Philosophical Issues, Psychology, Public Policy, Sociology, and Human Resources.

ISI is a family of volunteers worldwide who believe in the value of knowledge sharing. We have created several professional journals in specific fields. Each journal is staffed by several hundred volunteer reviewers, paper editors, and editors-in-chief. The paper’s author submits their paper for review. The journal’s editor-in-chief first reviews it. If the paper is turned down, the editor-in-chief sends the author a development letter containing ideas on improving the paper. Otherwise, the editor-in-chief assigns an editor to the paper and typically five reviewers. The reviewers write mentoring suggestions for the paper. The paper’s editor uses these suggestions and the editor’s own to create a development letter for the paper. The editor’s development letter is reviewed by the editor-in-chief, who either accepts the development letter’s wording or sends it back to the editor with mentoring comments on how to improve that letter. If the author accepts the revision requests, the author submits a revised paper and a letter describing how the revision addresses each of the suggestions in the development letter. Or the author may withdraw the paper at this point. This process continues until the editor recommends acceptance of the paper for publication. If the editor-in-chief approves the editor’s recommendation for acceptance, the paper is passed on to the journal’s publisher, who conducts the final quality control.

We measure our success by the number of volunteer colleagues, the number of website visits, the number of papers submitted, and the number of papers published.

Currently, we have 12 academic journals, hold an annual international conference in a different country, have over 10,000 colleagues and members from 75+ countries and from 600+ organizations. We receive 6000+ website visits per month. In addition, we have published over 50 books that are available on Amazon in paper format and free online.

Financials

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Operations

The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.

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Informing Science Institute

Board of directors
as of 08/23/2023
SOURCE: Self-reported by organization
Board chair

Professor T. Grandon Gill

University of South Florida

Term: 2019 - 2024

Mathews Nkhoma

RMIT University, Vietnam

Michael Jones

University of Wollongong, Australia

Elizabeth Boyd

Informing Science Institute

Eli Cohen

Informing Science Institute

Meg Murray

Kennesaw State University, USA

Grandon Gill

University of South Florida, USA

Board leadership practices

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

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  • Board orientation and education
    Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? No
  • CEO oversight
    Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? No
  • Ethics and transparency
    Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes
  • Board composition
    Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes
  • Board performance
    Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? No

Organizational demographics

SOURCE: Self-reported; last updated 8/23/2023

Who works and leads organizations that serve our diverse communities? Candid partnered with CHANGE Philanthropy on this demographic section.

Leadership

The organization's leader identifies as:

Race & ethnicity
Middle Eastern/Northern African
Gender identity
Male
Sexual orientation
Decline to state
Disability status
Decline to state

Race & ethnicity

Gender identity

 

Sexual orientation

No data

Disability