The South African Journal of Information Management (SAJIM) is written for an international readership of researchers, developers and Internet users in educational, business and professional environments. The Journal publishes peer-reviewed articles in numbered issues, four times a year, that are well written, timely and insightful in the areas of research and development as they relate to Information Management theory, technologies, applications and services.
Articles are archived and made available on a permanent basis via SAJIM’s Website at http://www.sajim.co.za.
From the December 2004 issue, page fees of R120.00 per 500 words (approximately one page) are payable by authors employed by South African tertiary institutions. Invoices will be e-mailed within one month of publication and payment is due within 30 days of invoice.
Submission methods
1. URL submission: URL submissions must be in text or HTML format. Files must be viewable online and must not be compressed or encoded. Do not e-mail your URL; indicate in an e-mail the exact URL where your paper is located.
2. E-mailed file submissions: E-mailed submissions must be in MS Word, RTF, or Text/ASCII format. All files submitted must be uncompressed. No ZIP, SIT, etc. files will be accepted.
Attach all related files to a single e-mail message.
E-mail address for submission: vanbrakelp@cput.ac.za
General guidelines
At the top of each manuscript insert the following and in this order:
 Title of the manuscript (bold; lower case)
 First author's initials and surname (no titles; no first names)
 Affiliation
 City, Country
 E-mail address
 Second author’s initials and surname (if any, same for further authors)

 Affiliation
 City, Country
 E-mail address
 Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
The peer-reviewed articles submitted for publication should present original research (i.e. not previously published), novel synthesis, or judicious review of current theory, method, policy, or practice in the fields of Information Management. All papers must be in English. Write with precision, clarity and economy. Use the active voice whenever appropriate. Use British spelling, for example behaviour, nor behavior.
All manuscripts must be language edited before submission. Arrangements can be made with the editor for language editing at an additional fee.
Originality
All manuscripts must be original. No manuscript will be considered which has already been published or is being considered by another journal. When work described in conference proceedings is substantially revised and extended, it will however be considered for publication. By submitting a manuscript, the author certifies that the article is not being considered for publication nor has it been published elsewhere.
Handling of manuscripts
All manuscripts are acknowledged upon receipt. Review is carried out as promptly as possible. The manuscript will be reviewed by at least two anonymous experts. When a decision for publication or rejection is made, the first author or author designated to receive correspondence is notified.
Abstract
Each article should include an informative, comprehensive abstract of 75 to 200 words. This abstract should succinctly summarize the major points of the article.
Key words and key phrases
Four to five key words or key phrases may be furnished.

Technical requirements
The length of an article should not exceed 5000 words. Use as little formatting as possible in the manuscript. Do not use a word processor's style sheets.
Artwork (screenshots, charts, graphs, printouts, illustrations, photographs) is not included in the text, but submitted as separate JPEG, GIF or TIFF files. The location of artwork must be indicated in the text. Artwork must be referred to in the text, be numbered, and have selfexplanatory captions. Submit tables also as separate files (in a standard word-processing format).
References
Authors are responsible for checking the accuracy of all references and that all references cited in the text also appear under ‘References’. All references should be in alphabetical order by author.
Books:
Rosen, A. 1997. Looking into intranets and the Internet: advice for managers. New York:
American Management Association.
Journals:
Raybould, B. 1995. Performance support engineering: an emerging development methodology for enabling organisational learning. Performance Improvement Quarterly
8(1):7-22.
Conferences:
Cullen, R. 1998. Does performance measurement improve organisational effectiveness? A post-modern analysis. In: Proceedings of the 2nd Northumbria International Conference on
Performance Measurement, September 1997. London: Newcastle-upon-Tyne:22-56.
Web-based documents:
Emtage, A., Heelan, B. and Rodgers, R.P.C. 1999. Publishing a multimedia journal via the
Web. [Online]. Available WWW: http://www.rau.ac.za/depter/infosci (Accessed 16 March
2002).
White Paper on Portals. 2002. [Online]. Available WWW: http://www.rasdf.com/documents
(Accessed 23 August 2001).

Contact information
Should you require more information on submitting articles and preparing materials for publication:
Prof Pieter van Brakel
Editor: SA Journal of Information Management vanbrakelp@cput.ac.za
OR:
Prof Chris Rensleigh
Assistant-editor: SA Journal of Information Management cr@rau.ac.za
Department of Information and Knowledge Management
University of Johannesburg
PO Box 524
2006 Auckland Park
South Africa
Tel: +27 11 489-2189
Fax: +27 11 489-2822