Publications, Presentations, and Events

This is a weekly listing of research activity as reported by the SLIS faculty.

Week of January 30, 2012

Blaise Cronin. Editorial. Language matters. Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, 63(2), 2012, p. 217.

Week of January 23, 2012

Katy Borner - DIY Data Mining, Information Visualization, and Science Maps Talk at Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS), KNAW The Hague, The Netherlands (1/23)

Marilyn Irwin- ALA Midwinter Conference, Jan. 19-23: Chair of Schneider Family Book Award jury, ASCLA Representative on ALA Education Assembly, and attending SLIS Alumni Reception

Jingfeng Xia et al. (2012). "A review of open access self-archiving mandate policies," portal: Libraries and the Academy, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 85-102 (co-authored with eight of my students).

Week of January 16, 2012

Rachel Applegate - Jan. 17-22: Dallas, Tx: Association of Library and Information Science Educators and ALA Midwinter.
Jan. 18: panel discussion on teaching online searching

Andrea Copeland, ALA, RUSA CODES, Collection Development Education Committee (1/21)

Milojević, S. (2012). Multidisciplinary cognitive content of nanoscience and nanotechnology. Journal of Nanoparticle Research. 14(1), 685. Doi: 10.1007/s11051-011-0685-4.

Yan, E., Ding, Y., Milojević, S., Sugimoto, C.R. (2012). Topics in dynamic research communities: An exploratory study for the field of information retrieval. Journal of Informetrics. 6(1): 140-153.

Jean Preer - January 16-21 ALISE Board of Directors meeting and ALISE conference in Dallas
"Wake Up and Read!" Book Promotion and National Library Week, 1958," published as chapter in Historical Essays in Honor of John Y. Cole, ed. Mary Niles Maack, Washington, D. C. Library of Congress in Association with the University of Texas Press, 2011.

Jingfeng Xia (2012). "Diffusionism and open access," Journal of Documentation, Vol. 68, No. 1, pp. 72-99.

Tomas Lipinski – Copyright Education subcommittee of ALA OITP meeting on Jan. 20 and 22 Discussion/consultation with ALA OIF committee on Jan. 21
Chairing ACRL Copyright Discussion Group: Hathi Trust and related litigation on Jan. 21

Week of January 10, 2012

John Walsh at Modern Language Association convention in Seattle, WA, Jan. 4-10.
—Participated in a workshop on "Evaluating Digital Scholarship for Tenure and Promotion"
—Presented a paper, "Information and the Victorian Poet," in a session on "Reconfiguring the Scholarly Edition"

Wild, D. J., Ding, Y., Sheth, A. P., Harland, L., Gifford, E. M., & Lajiness, M. S. (2012). System chemical biology and the Semantic Web: What they mean for the future of drug discovery research. Drug Discovery Today, doi:10.1016/j.drudis.2011.12.019.

Week of December 19, 2011

Walsh, J. A. (2012). “Images of God and Friends of God”:The Holy Icon as Document. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 63, 185-194. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ asi.21646/abstract

Week of December 12, 2011

He, B., Tang, J., Ding, Y., Wang, H., Sun, Y., Shin, J., Chen, B., Moorthy, G., Qiu, J., Desai, P., & Wild, D. (2011). Mining relational paths in integrated biomedical data. PLoS One, http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0027506

Blaise Cronin. Invited presentation, "What it means to be an author," Institute for Research in Social Sciences, University of Ulster, Belfast

Blaise Cronin. Invited presentation, "Never too many cooks: The evolving nature of scientific authorship," School of Information and Library Studies, University College Dublin

Week of December 5, 2011

Preer - A Japanese translation of Library Ethics has just been published by the Kyoto Institute for Library & Information Science.

Week of November 28, 2011

Ding - Invited talk: Modeling Network of Scientists, Mayo Clinic, November 29, 2011, Rochester, Minnesota, USA.

Week of November 21, 2011

Blaise Cronin. Editorial: Don't confuse accreditation with reputation. Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, 62(12), 2011, pp. 2299-2300.