Using quantitative and qualitative methods, I research the tools and processes underlying the creation, organization, discovery, communication, and preservation of interdisciplinary scholarship. My recent work with the cave and karst community evolved with my interest in the linkages among university-trained scientists and non-scientists and in the role of grey information sources in research. My current research project builds on the cave and karst research community work. I am examining the role of the research library in advancing citizen science initiatives. The ultimate goal is increasing scientific literacy in society. I am also promoting a range of research library services including open-access publishing, e-scholarship, and data management. The USF Tampa Library's Scholar Commons initiative (http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/) is the "umbrella site" for this suite of services.
Bibliometrics
Quantitative Literacy on the Web of Science, 2 – Mining the Health Numeracy Literature for Assessment Items (with H. Len Vacher), Numeracy: Advancing Education in Quantitative Literacy (2009)
A topic search of the Web of Science (WoS) database using the term “numeracy” produced...
Quantitative Literacy on the Web of Science, 1: The Bibliography and its Role in the History of this Journal (with H. Len Vacher), Numeracy: Advancing Education in Quantitative Literacy (2008)
Prior to deciding to propose in 2006 that the National Numeracy Network (NNN) publish a...
The Reflection of Karst in the Online Mirror: A Survey Within Scientific Databases, 1960-2005 (with Lee J. Florea and Beth Fratesi), Journal of Cave and Karst Studies (2005)
The field of cave and karst science is served by a literature that is dispersed...
Open-Access Publishing
Journal Publishing: Libraries Making a Difference (with William Garrison), Academic Resources (2012)
In this presentation, we describe the University of South Florida Tampa Library's open-access publishing program...
Numeracy: Open-Access Publishing to Reduce the Cost of Scholarly Journals, Numeracy: Advancing Education in Quantitative Literacy (2010)
Each fiscal year, as academic librarians throughout the United States prepare materials budgets, a national...
Why We Do It – the University of South Florida Tampa Library’s Commitment to Open-Access Publishing, Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai, Geologia (2009)
The University of South Florida Tampa Library's support for open-access content is part of the...
Research in Grey Literature
Grey Literature in Karst Research: The Evolution of the Karst Information Portal (KIP), Grey Literature in Library and Information Studies (2010)
The Karst Information Portal (KIP) is a digital library linking scientists, resource managers, and explorers...
The Impact of Grey Literature in Advancing Global Karst Research – A Follow-up (with Anna Perrault, Pete Reehling, and Courtney Crummit), GL9: 9th International Conference on Grey Literature (2007)
This presentation updates research findings reported in "The Impact of Grey Literature in Advancing Global...
The Impact of Grey Literature in Advancing Global Karst Research: An Information Needs Assessment for a Globally Distributed Interdisciplinary Community (with Anna H. Perrault, Pete Reehling, and Courtney Crummett), Publishing Research Quarterly (2007)
A survey of the global karst community was conducted in 2006. The survey was distributed...
The Impact of Grey Literature in Advancing Global Karst Research (with Anna Perrault, Pete Reehling, and Courtney Crummit), GL8: 8th International Conference on Grey Literature (2006)
This presentation presents the findings of a survey of karst researchers from around the globe....
Databases
Gulf Oil Spill Information Center (GOSIC) (2010)
In service to the scientists at the 21 institutions that make up the Florida Institute...
Cave Minerals of the World (with Bogdan P. Onac and Beverly Caggiano) (2008)
The Cave Mineral Database (CAMIDA) is a collaborative project of the USF Libraries, UIS’s Cave...
Karst Information Portal (2007)
The Karst Information Portal is a digital library linking scientists, managers, and explorers with quality...
Research in Scholarly Communication
The Evolution of the Karst Information Portal, Coalition for Networked Information 2009 Fall Membership Meeting (2009)
The Karst Information Portal (KIP) is a digital library initiative linking scientists, resource managers, and...
Cave Mineral Database: A Joint Collaboration between Geologists, Librarians, and Programmers (with Beverly Caggiano and Bogdan P. Onac), Frontiers in Cave Mineralogy Studies Symposium. Karst Horizons: 15th International Congress of Speleology (2009)
The Cave Mineral Database (CAMIDA) is a collaborative project of the University of South Florida...
Superior Karst Management Through Superior Data Management: The Karst Information Portal (with E. Spencer Fleury, George H. Veni, Penelope J. Boston, Diana E. Northup, H. Len Vacher, and Pat Seiser), Proceedings of the 18th National Cave and Karst Management Symposium (2008)
Effective stewardship of caves and karst areas requires access to and efficient analysis of a...
Enhancing Communication and Knowledge Discovery Among Karst Scientists: The Role of the Karst Information Portal (KIP) (with George Veni, Diana Northup, Penelope Boston, Robert Brinkmann, H. Len Vacher, Alexander Klimchouk, Linn Marks-Collins, and Johann van Reenan), Geological Society of America Annual Meeting (2007)
Karst science is an intrinsically multidisciplinary field of study that is poorly indexed and difficult...
Introducing the Karst Information Portal (with Robert Brinkmann, George Veni, and Penelope Boston), International Conference on Karst Hydrogeology and Ecosystems (2007)
This presentation introduces the Karst Information Portal to an international audience.
Librarianship
Staffing the Transition to the Virtual Academic Library: Competencies, Characteristics, and Change, Building a Virtual Library (2003)
Change brought about by innovations in computing technologies has fundamentally altered the nature of work...