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AIS is constantly evolving to meet your needs. By interacting with our members and staying current with the latest trends in IS, AIS creates and implements new and innovative benefits with one goal in mind: to help you advance your academic IS career.

AIS provides a centralized and comprehensive resource for IS academics, offering interactive community forums for research and thoughtful discussion, informed guidance from seasoned experts and numerous professional tools that will help you connect, exchange and advance.

For more information about the benefits of AIS membership, please visit our newly updated member benefits page and see how AIS can go to work for you.

Membership Applications/Renewal Forms

• Online Membership Application Form
• Online Membership Renewal Form 
• Membership Form (Join/Renew via postal mail) [PDF]
• AIS-SIM Academic Institutional Membership Application/Renewal via postal mail [ Word | PDF ]
  
  

   

  Membership Types

  AIS offers several different types of memberships that are designed to fit your unique needs:

  Members

  Academic --faculty who have received their doctoral (or terminal) degree and are employed by a college or university
  Student --PhD or Master's degree candidates who are currently enrolled in a college or university
  Retired --faculty who are no longer actively working at a college or university
  Professional-- practitioners who work within the IS or IT field(s)

  eLibrary Subscribers
  
  Individual Subscription --provides individuals one year of access to the AIS eLibrary, including the exclusive AIS journals JAIS and CAIS
  Institutional Subscription --provides institutions one year of access to the AIS eLibrary, including JAIS and CAIS
  
  
  
  

   

  Membership Rates

  Individual Membership Rates
  AIS membership rates are determined based on an individual or organization's income classification under the World Bank. Please click here to locate your current membership rate. 
  
  Please note: Discounted rates apply only to individuals and institutions permanently residing in countries on the "high income" list of the World Bank. Students studying in countries on the "high income" list are not eligible for the discount. Faculty working in countries on the "high income" list are not eligible for the discount.
  
  Group Institutional Membership Rates
  AIS offers deeply discounted group membership rates to universities that include 5 academic memberships to AIS, one complimentary conference registration, 5 print subscriptions to MIS Quarterly, one Institutional Subscription to the AIS eLibrary, complimentary Placement registration, as well as numerous other benefits. Institutions that take advantage of this special offer can choose to enroll as either Insitutional Members or joint AIS/SIM Institutional Members, which offers additional discounts and membership in both AIS and SIM.
  
  Institutional Membership: $1,750  ($750 for instittuions in non-rich countries)
  Joint AIS/SIM Institutional Membership: $3,000

  Check out the benefits of Institutional and Joint AIS/SIM Institutional Membership!
  

  
  

   

  Membership Year

  AIS membership is based on a rolling schedule. Your renewal payment will be due exactly one year from the date you join/renew your membership. (1/1/2009 join > 1/1/2010 renewal date)