School of Information faculty members serve on the editorial boards of the following journals:

• American Libraries (journal of the ALA)
• Annual Review of Information Science and Technology
• College and Research Libraries
• Communications of the ACM
• The Electronic Library
• IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
• The Information Society
• Interacting with Computers
• Journal of Digital Information
• Journal of Documentation
• Journal of Education for Library and Information Science
• Libraries and the Cultural Record
• Library History
• Library Quarterly
• The New Advocate

The School of Information is also the home of Libraries & the Cultural Record, an interdisciplinary journal that explores the significance of collections of recorded knowledge--their creation, organization, preservation, and utilization--in the context of cultural and social history, unlimited as to time and place.

Faculty publish research in a range of journals and conference proceedings and are happy to provide copies of their papers to interested parties - if the paper you want is not available on our website, just ask.

Recent publications include:

Aspray, W. and Ceruzzi, P. eds. (2008). The internet and american business Cambridge, MA: MIT Press

Aspray, W. and Fujita, D. (2006/2007). From the japanese transistor radio export business to makudonaldo, Rutherford Journal v. 2. Online

Aspray, W. and Cohoon, J. (2007). Firm growth and persistence: a review of the research literature on women's entrepreneurship in the information technology field. With Joanne Cohoon, Entrepreneurial Report Series, No. 1, National Center for Women & Information Technology pdf available online

Aspray, W. and Cohoon, J. (2007). Positive illusions, motivations, management style, stereotypes, stress, and psychological traits: a review of the research literature on women's entrepreneurship in the information technology field. With Joanne Cohoon, Entrepreneurial Report Series, No. 2, National Center for Women & Information Technology pdf available online

Aspray, W. and Cohoon, J. (2007). Access to financial capital: a review of the research literature on women's entrepreneurship in the information technology field. With Joanne Cohoon, Entrepreneurial Report Series, No. 3, National Center for Women & Information Technology pdf available online

Aspray, W. and Cohoon, J. (2007). Networking and access to social capital: a review of the research literature on women's entrepreneurship in the information technology field. With Joanne Cohoon, Entrepreneurial Report Series, No. 4, National Center for Women & Information Technology pdf available online

Aspray, W., Mayadas, F. and Vardi, M. (2008). Globalization and the offshoring of software. In Goran Marklund, Charles Wessner, and Nicholas Vonortas, eds. The Innovation Imperative - Globalization and National Competitiveness, Edward Elgar

Aspray, W. (2007). Leadership in computing history: arthur norberg, and the charles babbage institute, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 29:4 (October-December), 16-27.

Barker, L. (2009). Student and faculty perceptions of undergraduate research experiences in computing. ACM Transactions in Computing Education, 9(1), 1-28.

Barker, L. (2009). Science teachers' use of online resources and the Digital Library for Earth System Education. Proceedings of the 9th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, June 15-19, 2009, Austin, Texas, 141-150.

Barker, L. J., McDowell, C., & Kalahar, K. (2009). Exploring factors that influence computer science introductory course students to persist in the major. In Proceedings of the 40th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (pp. 153-157). Chattanooga, TN.

Bias, R. G., Lucas, S., & Latham, T. (2007). The hybrid user-requirements interface evaluation (HURIE) method. In C. Righi & J. James (Eds.), User-centered design case studies. San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann.

Bollen, J., Nelson, M., Geisler, G., and Araujo, R. (2007). Usage derived recommendations for a video digital library. Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 30(3) pp. 1059-1083.

Burger, C. and Aspray, W. (2007). IT careers. with Carol Burger. In Carol Burger, ed., Hacking the Firewall: A Cross-Cultural Context for Recruiting Women to IT Wellesley, MA: A.K. Peters

Cohoon, J. and Aspray, W. (2007). The state of social science research on gender and it entrepreneurship: a summary of research literature on women's entrepreneurship in the information technology field, Entrepreneurial Report Series, No. 5, National Center for Women & IT. pdf available online

Davenport, D., Richey, J. and Westbrook, L. (2008). E-Government access to social service information: state web resources for domestic violence survivors. Journal of the American Society of Information Science and Technology. 59 (6): 903-915.

Efron, M. (2007). Metadata use in OAI-compliant institutional repositories. Journal of Digital Information, Vol 8, 2. - full text html

Frick, C. (2008). Beyond Hollywood: enhancing heritage with the "orphan" film International Journal of Heritage Studies Volume 14 Issue 4 - pp. 319 - 331

Galloway, P. (2008) Countering 'a powerful indefiniteness': Doing Choctaw ethnohistory in the liminal space between history and archeology. In Greg O'Brien (ed.), Pre-Removal Choctaw History: Exploring New Paths. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.

Geisler, Gary and Yontz, Elaine. (2009). Evaluation of field-based experiences and assessment of student learning. Chapter 17 in Roy, L., Jensen, K., and Meyers, A.H. (Eds.), Service Learning: Linking Library Education and Practice. Chicago: ALA Editions, 179-184.

Geisler, G. and Burns, S. (2008). Tagging video: conventions and strategies of the YouTube community. Bulletin of IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries (TCDL) 4(1).

Geisler, G. and Burns, Sam. (2007). Tagging video: conventions and strategies of the YouTube community. Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2007). - full text pdf

Hayes, B. and Aspray, W. (2008). Pre-diabetes: an informatics research agenda. HEALTHINF (1), pp. 17-27.

Harmon, G. (2008) Remembering William Goffman: mathematical information science pioneer. Information Processing and Management. 44: 1634-1647. 2008. http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/papers/goffman.html.

Harmon, G. (2008) Unconscious cognition in the genesis of reference queries. creating a reference renaissance: current and future trends. Proceedings of 2008 Annual Conference of Reference User's and Services Association. Abstract at http://www.bcr.org./referencerenaissance/schedule_details.html.

Kortum, P., Bias, R. G., Knott, B. A., & Bushey, R. G. (2008). The effect of choice and announcement duration on the estimation of telephone hold time. International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction, 4(4), 29-53.

Lukenbill, B. and Immroth, B. (2007). Teacher-school library media specialists collaboration through social marketing strategies: an information behavior study. School Library Media Research, Vol. 10. - full text html

Westbrook, L. (2009). Crisis information concerns: information needs of domestic violence survivors. Information Processing and Management. 45: 98-114.

Westbrook, L. (2009) Information myths and intimate partner violence: sources, contexts, and consequences. Journal of the American Society of Information Science and Technology. 60 (4): 826-836. 2009.

Westbrook, L. (2008) E-Government access to social service information: state web resources for domestic violence survivors. Journal of the American Society of Information Science and Technology. 59 (6): 903-915.

Westbrook, L. (2008) Understanding crisis information needs in context: the case of intimate partner violence survivors. Library Quarterly. 78 (3): 237-261. 2008. [Winner of the Jesse H. Shera Award for Distinguished Published Research, 2009]

Westbrook, L. (2008). E-government support for people in crisis: an evaluation of police department web site support for domestic violence survivors using "person-in-situation" information need analysis. Library and Information Science Research. 30: 22-38.

Westbrook, L. (2008). Chat reference communication patterns and implications: applying politeness theory. Journal of Documentation. 63(5): 638-658.

Westbrook, L. (2008). Digital information support for domestic violence victims. Journal of the American Society of Information Science and Technology. 58 (3): 420-432.

Westbrook, L. (2008). Surviving domestic violence: seeking support in cyber-space. In Proceedings of the Information Resources Management Association International Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, May 22, Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, editor. Information Resources Management Association, Hershey, PA: 1294-1296.

Westbrook, L. (2007). Chat reference communication patterns and implications: applying politeness theory. Journal of Documentation, 63,5, 638-658. - full text html | full text pdf

Westbrook, L. (2007). Digital information support for domestic violence victims. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 58,3, 420-432. - full text html | full text pdf

Williams, J. P., Bias, R. G., & Mayhew, D. J. (2007). Cost justification. In J. A. Jacko & A. Sears (Eds.), The Human-Computer Interaction Handbook: Fundamentals, Evolving Technologies and Emerging Applications., 2nd Edition. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.

Winget, M. (2008). Annotations on musical scores by performing musicians: collaborative models, interactive methods, and music digital library tool development. Journal of the American Society of Information Science and Technology. Volume 59, Issue 12. link to abstract

Zins, C, Harmon, G. et al (2007) Knowledge map of information science. Brazilian Journal of Information Science. Jan/Jun. 2007, Vol. 1 (1): 3-29.