We are happy to announce the contents of ++ Volume 96 of the Information Systems Journal ++ Herman Masindano Wandabwa, M. Asif Naeem, Farhaan Mirza, Russel Pears Topical affinity in short text microblogs Information Systems, Volume 96, 2021, 101662, ISSN 0306-4379 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.is.2020.101662 Natalia Arzamasova, Klemens Boehm Scalable and data-aware SQL query recommendations Information Systems, Volume 96, 2021, 101646, ISSN 0306-4379 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.is.2020.101646 Bushra Alhijawi, Ghazi Al-Naymat, Nadim Obeid, Arafat Awajan Novel predictive model to improve the accuracy of collaborative filtering recommender systems Information Systems, Volume 96, 2021, 101670, ISSN 0306-4379 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.is.2020.101670 Ziyang Han, Haibo Hu, ProDB: A memory-secure database using hardware enclave and practical oblivious RAM Information Systems, Volume 96, 2021, 101681, ISSN 0306-4379 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.is.2020.101681 Ferdinando Montecuollo, Giovannni Schmid ER-index: A referential index for encrypted genomic databases Information Systems, Volume 96, 2021, 101668, ISSN 0306-4379 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.is.2020.101668 Juan J. Lastra-Diaz, Josu Goikoetxea, Mohamed Ali Hadj Taieb, Ana Garcia-Serrano, Mohamed Ben Aouicha, Eneko Agirre, David Sanchez A large reproducible benchmark of ontology-based methods and word embeddings for word similarity Information Systems, Volume 96, 2021, 101636, ISSN 0306-4379 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.is.2020.101636 Chaobin Liu, Shixi Chen, Shuigeng Zhou, Jihong Guan, Yao Ma A general framework for privacy-preserving of data publication based on randomized response techniques Information Systems, Volume 96, 2021, 101648, ISSN 0306-4379 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.is.2020.101648 Ansar Rafique, Dimitri Van Landuyt, Emad Heydari Beni, Bert Lagaisse, Wouter Joosen CryptDICE: Distributed data protection system for secure cloud data storage and computation Information Systems, Volume 96, 2021, 101671, ISSN 0306-4379 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.is.2020.101671 Rik Eshuis Feature-oriented engineering of declarative artifact-centric process models Information Systems, Volume 96, 2021, 101644, ISSN 0306-4379 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.is.2020.101644 Editors-in-Chief Dennis Shasha, Gottfried Vossen, Matthias Weidlich