Jeffrey Beall

Education

Institution Date Degree Major California State University, Northridge 1982 B.A. Spanish Oklahoma State University 1987 M.A. English University of North Carolina 1990 M.S.L.S Library Science

ORCID number 0000-0001-9012-5330

Professional Experience

2012-present Scholarly Communications Librarian / Associate Professor, Auraria Library, University of Colorado Denver.

2000-2012 Metadata Librarian, Auraria Library, University of Colorado Denver (Instructor from 2000- 2005; Assistant Professor from 2005-2012; Associate Professor from 2012- )

1990-2000 Cataloger, Widener Library, Harvard University

Refereed Publications

2017 Beall, J. What I learned from predatory publishers. Biochemica Medica 27.2:273-279.

2017 Beall, J. Predatory journals threaten the quality of published medical research. Journal of Orthopaedic & Sports Physical Therapy 47.1: 3–5.

2016 Beall, J. Medical publishing and the threat of medical journals. International Journal of Women's Dermatology 2.4:115–116.

2014 Beall, J. Scholarly open-access publishing and the problem of predatory publishers. Journal of Biological Physics and Chemistry 14:22-24.

2014 Fox, M., and Beall, J. Advice for plagiarism whistleblowers. Ethics & Behavior 25.4:341- 349.

2013 Beall, J. Avoiding the peril of publishing qualitative research in predatory journals. Journal of Ethnographic & Qualitative Research 8.1:1-12. [Lead article].

2013 Beall, J. Medical publishing triage: Chronicling predatory open access publishers. Annals of Medicine and Surgery 2.2:1-3. [Invited].

2011 Sobel, K. and Beall, J. Humanities research, book digitization, and the problem of linguistic change. Journal of Library Innovation 2.2:3-15.

2011 Beall, J. Abbreviations, full spellings, and searchers' preferences. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 49.6:443-456.

2011 Beall, J. Academic library databases and the problem of word-sense ambiguity. Journal of Academic Librarianship 37.1:64-69.

2010 Brown-Sica, M., Beall, J. and McHale, N. Next generation library catalogs and the problem of slow response time. Information Technology and Libraries 28.4:213-223.

1 2010 Beall, J. Geographical research and the problem of variant place names in digitized books and other full-text resources. Library Collections, Acquisitions, & Technical Services 34.2/3:74-82.

2010 Beall, J. How Google uses metadata to improve search results. The Serials Librarian 59.1:40-53.

2010 Beall, J. Metadata for name disambiguation and collocation. Future Internet 2.1:1-15.

2009 Beall, J. Free books: loading brief MARC records for open-access books in an academic library catalog. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 47.5:452-463.

2008 Beall, J. and K. Kafadar. Measuring the extent of the synonym problem in full-text searching. Evidence Based Library and Information Practice 3.4:18-33.

2008 Brown-Sica, M. and J. Beall. Library 2.0 and the problem of hate speech. Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship 9.2: Online: http://southernlibrarianship.icaap.org/content/v09n02/brown-sica_m01.html

2008 Beall, J. The weaknesses of full-text searching. The Journal of Academic Librarianship 34.5: 438-444.

2007 Beall, J. The value of alphabetically-sorted browse displays in information discovery. Library Collections, Access, & Technical Services 31.3/4:184-194.

2007 Beall, J. and K. Kafadar. Measuring typographical errors’ impact on retrieval in bibliographic databases. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 44.3/4:197-211. Also published in the monograph: Cataloger, Editor, and Scholar: Essays in Honor of Ruth C. Carter, Robert Holley, editor. Binghamton, NY: Haworth Information Press, 2007.

2006 Beall, J. The death of metadata. The Serials Librarian 51.2:55-74.

2005 Beall, J. Metadata and data quality problems in the digital library. Journal of Digital Information 6.3: Online: http://jodi.tamu.edu/Articles/v06/i03/Beall/

2005 Beall, J. and K. Kafadar. The proportion of NUC pre-56 titles represented in OCLC WorldCat. College & Research Libraries 66.5:431-435.

2004 Beall, J. Using OCLC Connexion to find typographical errors in authority records. OCLC Systems & Services 20.2:71-75.

2004 Beall, J. and K. Kafadar. The effectiveness of copy cataloging at eliminating typographical errors in shared bibliographic records. Library Resources & Technical Services 48.2:92-101.

2001 Beall, J. Publishers’ errors make catalogers [sic]: an analysis of the error indicators [sic] and [i.e.] in cataloging. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 32.3:87-107.

2000 Beall, J. The impact of vendor records on cataloging and access in academic libraries. Library Collections, Acquisitions & Technical Services 24:229-237.

1999 Beall, J. Indexing form and genre terms in a large academic library OPAC: the Harvard Experience. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 28.2:65-71.

1991 Beall, J. Describing the foreign language skills of catalogers in academic libraries. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 14.1:39-47.

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Refereed Reviews of Electronic Resources

2013 Beall J. Five Predatory Mega-journals: A Review. In: The Charleston Advisor 14.4: 20-25.

2012 Beall, J. Five Scholarly Open Access Publishers. In: The Charleston Advisor 13.4:5-10.

2011 Beall, J. Internet Scientific Publications. In: The Charleston Advisor 12.4:39-41.

2010 Beall, J. "Predatory," Open-Access Scholarly Publishers. In: The Charleston Advisor 11.4:10-17.

2009 Beall, J. Bentham Open. In: The Charleston Advisor 11.1:29-32.

2008 Beall, J. Footnote. In: The Charleston Advisor 10.2:17-19.

2008 Beall, J. WorldCat. In: The Charleston Advisor 9.4:46-49.

2007 Beall, J. informaWorld. In: The Charleston Advisor 8.4:23-27.

2006 Beall, J. ResearchNow. In: The Charleston Advisor 7.3:39-41.

2005 Beall, J. CSA Illumina. In: The Charleston Advisor 6.4:46-48.

2004 Beall, J. Marquis Who’s Who. In: The Charleston Advisor 6.2:21-23.

2004 Beall, J. Oxford Scholarship Online. In: The Charleston Advisor 6.1:20-22.

2003 Beall, J. Europa World Year Book Online. In: The Charleston Advisor 5.3:13-15.

2003 Beall, J. Columbia Gazetteer of the World. In: The Charleston Advisor 5.1:22-24.

2001 Beall, J. Inet Library. In: The Charleston Advisor 3.3:31, 34-35.

2001 Beall, J. Oxford English Dictionary. In: The Charleston Advisor 2.4:32-34.

Book Chapters

2015 Beall, J. Open Access and Web Publications. In: M.H. Oermann and J.C. Hays, Writing for Publication in Nursing, 3rd ed. (p. 379-383). New York: Springer.

2008 Beall, J. OCLC: A Review. In: Radical Cataloging: Essays at the Front, K.R. Roberto, ed. p. 85-94. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co.

Book Reviews

2001-2014 56 short book reviews published in Library Journal and Colorado Libraries.

Publications in Symposia Proceedings

2016 Beall, J. Behind the spam: A "spectral analysis" of predatory publishers. In: P. Benvenuti (Ed.), Astronomy in focus: as presented at the IAU XXIX General Assembly, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States, 2015 (p. 166-171). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

2016 Beall, J. Predatory publishers threaten the integrity of research and scholarly communication. World-Class Scientific Publication 2016: Publishing Ethics, Peer-Review,

3 and Content Preparation. The 5th International Scientific and Practical Conference, Moscow, Russia.

1997 Beall, J. Cataloging electronic resources: monographs. Summary of Proceedings: Fifty- First Conference of the American Theological Library Association, Boston, Mass.

Non-Refereed Publications

2017 Beall, J. Predatory journals, peer review, and education research New Horizons in Adult Education and Human Resource Development, 29.1:54–58.

2016 Beall, J. Pharmacy research and predatory journals: Authors beware. American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy 73.19:1548-1550.

2016 Beall, J. Scholarly communication, open access, and South America. Tendencia Editorial 6:6-9.

2016 Beninger, P., Beall, J., & Shumway, S. Debasing the currency of science: The growing menace of predatory open-access journals. Journal of Shellfish Research 35.1:1-5.

2016 Beall, J. Pharmacy research and predatory journals: Authors beware. American Journal of Health System Pharmacy 73.19:1548-1550.

2016 Beall, J. Dangerous predatory publishers threaten medical research. Journal of Korean Medical Science 31.10:1511-1513.

2016 Beall, J. Ban predators from the scientific record. Nature 534:326.

2016 Beall, J., & DuBois, J. Scholars beware: Predatory publishers are increasingly targeting psychologists and other social scientists. Monitor on Psychology 47.4:42-43.

2016 Beall, J. Essential information about predatory publishers and journals. Higher Education in Russia and Beyond 1.7:7-9.

2016 Beall, J. Best practices for scholarly authors in the age of predatory journals. Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England 98:77-79.

2015 Beall, J. Predatory journals and the breakdown of research cultures. Information Development 31.5:473-476.

2015 Beall, J. Response to "Beyond Beall's List." College & Research Libraries News 76.6: 340-341.

2015 Beall, J. The “metric” system: yet more chaos in scholarly publishing. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 6.11:2112-2113.

2015 Beall, J. What the open-access movement doesn't want you to know. Academe 101.3:37- 40.

2015 Gutierrez, F.R.S., Beall, J. and Forero, D.A. Spurious alternative impact factors: the scale of the problem from an academic perspective. Bioessays 37.5:474-476.

2014 Beall, J. Corrupt and questionable practices in the scholarly publishing industry. Editorial Office News 7.10:10-13.

2014 Beall, J. Dublin Core is still dead. Library Hi Tech News 31.9:11-13.

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2014 Beall, J. Don't let predatory publishers get you down. AEJMC News: The newsletter of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication 47.4:12-14.

2014 Beall, J. Unintended consequences: The rise of predatory publishers and the future of scholarly publishing. Editorial Office News 7.1:4-6.

2013 Beall, J. Letter to the Editor. The Journal of Academic Librarianship 39.6:588.

2013 Beall, J. The open-access movement is not really about open access. tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique 11.2: 589-597.

2013 Beall, J. Scholarly publishing free for all. College Quarterly 16.2. Online: http://www.collegequarterly.ca/2013-vol16-num02-spring/beall.html [Invited].

2013 Beall, J. Unethical practices in scholarly, open-access publishing. Journal of Information Ethics 22.1:11-20.

2013 Beall, J. Predatory publishers threaten to erode scholarly communication. Science Editor 36.1:18-19 [Invited].

2013 Beall, J. Predatory publishing is just one of the consequences of gold open access. Learned Publishing 26.2:79-84 [Invited].

2012 Beall, J. Predatory publishers are corrupting open access. Nature 489.7415:179 [Invited].

2012 Beall, J. Predatory publishing. The Scientist 26.8:22-23 [Invited].

2011 Beall, J. Librarians and the threat to free political speech. American Libraries 42.9/10:33.

2011 Beall, J. Measuring duplicate metadata records in library databases. Library Hi Tech News 27.9/10:10-12.

2010 Beall, J. Update: predatory open-access scholarly publishers. The Charleston Advisor 12.1:50

2010 Beall, J. Let's review everything. American Libraries 41.5:23.

2009 Beall, J. Cataloguing names the old-fashioned way. Science 324.5934:1514-1515.

2007 Beall, J. Repurposing MARC data: some pitfalls. Library Hi Tech News 24.4:18-19.

2007 Beall, J. The solution to the weaknesses of web search engines. E-letter response published in ScienceOnline. Available: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/eletters/317/5837/468

2007 Beall, J. Why we still need metadata in a full-text searching world. Catalogue & Index 155:59-62.

2007 Beall, J. Discrete criteria for selecting and comparing metadata schemes. Against the Grain 19.1:28-31.

2007 Beall, J. Search fatigue: finding a cure for the database blues. American Libraries 38.3:46-50.

5 2006 Beall, J. Ethnic groups and Library of Congress subject headings. Colorado Libraries 32.4:37-44.

2006 Beall, J. Library databases and data quality. MLA News 388:26.

2006 Beall, J. Stop the war on metadata. Library Journal 131.12:46.

2006 Beall, J. The death of full-text searching. PNLA Quarterly 70.2:5-6.

2006 Beall, J. Some reservations about FRBR. Library Hi Tech News 23.2:15-16.

2005 Beall, J. 10 ways to improve data quality. American Libraries 36.3:36-37.

2004 Beall, J. Typographical and factual errors in library databases. Informed Librarian Online, guest forum, December [Invited].

2004 Beall, J. Dublin Core: an obituary. Library Hi Tech News 21.8:40-41.

2003 Beall, J. How successful is copy cataloging at catching and fixing typographical errors in records imported from bibliographic utilities: a report on the research of the 2002 Lazerow Fellowship recipient. College & Research Libraries News 64.11:704-705.

2002 Beall, J. What OCLC and RLIN don’t want you to know about the future of cataloguing. PNLA Quarterly 66.3:9-10.

2001 Beall, J. Internet resources in rare diseases. Health Care on the Internet 5.4:11-17.

1999 Beall, J. HTML on CD-ROM: the next generation of desktop publishing. MC Journal, the Journal of Academic Media Librarianship 6.2. Online: http://wings.buffalo.edu/publications/mcjrnl/v6n2/beall.html.

1998 Beall, J. Guaranteed hits: how to make your library’s Web site stand out in Web search engines. College & Research Libraries News 59.3:160-162.

1997 Beall, J. Cataloging World Wide Web sites consisting mainly of links. Journal of Internet Cataloging 1.1:83-92.

1991 Beall, J. Class with Fred Kilgour. OCLC Newsletter 190, March/April: 13-14.

1990 Beall, J. An American classic. AB Bookman’s Weekly 86:557-558.

Unpublished Papers Deposited in Digital Repositories

2012 Beall, J. Predatory Publishers and Opportunities for Scholarly Societies. E-Prints in Library and Information Science: http://eprints.rclis.org/18044/

2006 Beall, J. Metadata schemes points of comparison. E-Prints in Library and Information Science: http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00005544/

2005 Beall, J. Catalog or catalogue? examining a library dilemma. E-Prints in Library and Information Science: http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00004983/

Presentations at Meetings and Seminars Presented

2017 Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, November 6, 2017 [Invited seminar series speaker].

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2017 Open Access Week @ USC, Doheny Memorial Library, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, October 9, 2017 [Invited keynote speaker].

2017 International Centre for Scientific and Technical Information, International Conference, Moscow, Russian Federation, September 21-22, 2017 [Invited speaker].

2017 Sexto Seminario Entre Pares 2017, Consorcio Nacional de Recursos de Información Científica y Tecnológica (CONRICYT), Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, México, September 4- 6, 2017 [Invited speaker].

2017 Delta Serials Conference, University of Arkansas, Jonesboro, Arkansas, July 27-28, 2017 [Invited inaugural keynote speaker].

2017 Grand Rounds, University of Alberta Medical School, Edmonton, Alberta, June 30, 2017. [Invited speaker].

2017 3rd International Conference ‘Plagiarism across Europe and Beyond,’ Brno, Czech Republic, May 24-26, 2017 [Invited keynote speaker].

2017 Ciudad Politécnica de la Innovación, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain, April 20, 2017 [Invited seminar series speaker].

2017 Medialab UGR, Universidad de Granada, Granada Spain, April 18, 2017 [Invited seminar series speaker].

2017 NIDA International Business Conference, 2017, Bangkok, Thailand, March 4, 2017 [Invited keynote speaker].

2016 Joint meeting: The 11th Thai Citation Index Symposium on Thai Scholarly Journals and the 4th ASEAN Citation Index Steering Committee Meeting, Bangkok, Thailand, December 15, 2016 [Invited keynote speaker].

2016 King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi, Bangkok, Thailand, December 14, 2016 [Invited speaker].

2016 Academy for Global Business Advancement (AGBA) 13th World Congress, Surakarta, Indonesia, November 26-27, 2016 [Invited panelist].

2016 Asosiasi Fakultas Ekonomi & Bisnis Indonesia (AFEBI), Annual meeting (Sidang Pleno KE-11), Surakarta, Indonesia, November 25, 2016 [Invited keynote speaker].

2016 Monsanto Corporation, St. Louis, Missouri, November 6-7, 2016 [Invited speaker].

2016 Joint meeting of the Council of Food Science Administrators (CFSA) and the Association of Nutrition Departments and Programs (ANDP), Washington, D.C., October 27-28, 2016 [Invited speaker].

2016 Pacific Northwest National Laboratories, Richland, Washington, Publishing Summit '16, October 25-26, 2016 [Invited keynote speaker].

2016 Western University of Health Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Pomona, California, October 13-14, 2016 [Invited speaker].

2016 Baylor College of Medicine, Houston Texas, October 10-11, 2016 [Invited seminar series speaker].

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2016 Academy of Management conference, Anaheim, California, August 8, 2016 [Invited speaker].

2016 Canadian Council of Deans of Science, Niagara Falls, Ontario, June 20-21, 2016. [Invited keynote speaker].

2016 Czech Academy of Sciences, Conference "Parasitic Relations in Academic Publishing / Parazitické vztahy v akademickém publikování", Prague, Czech Republic, June 2, 2016. [Invited keynote speaker].

2016 5th International Scientific and Practical Conference "World-Class Scientific Publication, 2016: Publishing Ethics, Peer-Review and Content Preparation" May 17-18, 2016, Moscow, Russia. Gave one short, introductory talk and two longer talks. [Invited speaker].

2016 Russia. Ministry of Education. International Seminar “Strategies to identify unethical publishing practices.” Moscow, Russia, May 19, 2016. [Invited panelist].

2016 Joint conference of the Substance Abuse Librarians & Information Specialists and the Association of Mental Health Librarians, Denver, Colorado, May 7, 2016. [Invited speaker].

2016 Colleague Connection (Annual meeting of five Colorado-based library organizations) Denver, Colorado, April 28, 2016. [Invited keynote speaker].

2016 Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, International Conference and Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, April 4, 2015. [Invited panelist].

2016 University of Northern Colorado, Seminar Series, Greeley, Colorado, March 28, 2016. [Invited speaker].

2016 Gaming Metrics [Conference], Law School, University of California Davis, Davis California, February 4-5, 2016 [invited panelist].

2016 EA European Academy, Annual Conference, Mainz, Germany, January 26-27, 2016 [Invited keynote speaker].

2015 University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, December 10, 2015. [Invited speaker].

2015 Canadian Cancer Research Conference, Montréal, Québec, November 9-10, 2015. [Invited panelist].

2015 Canadian Science Publishers, Annual Editors Meeting, Ottawa, Ontario, November 5, 2015. [Invited speaker].

2015 Southwestern Oklahoma State University, Administrative Issues Conference, October 22- 23, 2015. [Invited keynote speaker].

2015 AgreenSkills (INRA, France), Annual Meeting, Barcelona, Spain, October 13-15, 2015. [Invited panelist].

2015 Association of Research Integrity Officers Conference, Denver, Colorado, September 28- 30, 2015. [Invited panelist].

8 2015 International Society of Managing & Technical Editors, North American Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, August 20-21, 2015. [Invited keynote speaker].

2015 International Astronomical Union XXIXth General Assembly, Honolulu, Hawaii, August 4- 6, 2015. Invited keynote speaker for the IAU FM3 Meeting.

2015 American Theological Library Association Annual Conference, Denver, Colorado, June 18, 2015. [Invited panelist].

2015 Almaty Management University, Almaty, Kazakhstan, June 8-10, 2015. Gave three workshops over three days to Ph.D. students, academic librarians, and faculty from all over Kazakhstan.

2015 4th World Conference on Research Integrity, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 31-June 3, 2015 [Invited plenary speaker].

2015 American College of Sports Medicine, Annual Meeting, San Diego, California, May 26-28, 2015 [Invited speaker].

2015 2nd International Conference Communicating Science: Emerging Publication Models, Universidade da Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal, May 21-22, 2015 [Invited keynote speaker].

2015 International Association of STM Publishers, April 20-22, 2015 [Invited keynote speaker].

2015 Texas A&M University Commerce, March 2, 2015 [Invited speaker].

2015 Sanford Research, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, January 12, 2015 [Invited speaker].

2014 Chicago Collaborative, Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries, Washington, D.C., November 11-12, 2014. [Invited speaker].

2014 College of Du Page, Glen Ellyn, Illinois, October 22, 2014. Gave a live talk via webinar software. [Invited speaker].

2014 Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, October 8-11, 2014. Gave a talk to the entire campus and also one to the library staff and faculty. [Invited speaker].

2014 University of Colorado Boulder, Arts & Sciences Support of Education through Technology (ASSETT), September 15, 2014. [Invited panelist].

2014 Washington University Medical School, St. Louis, Missouri, September 8-10, 2014. [Invited speaker]. Also spoke at a brown-bag luncheon in the main library.

2014 International Society of Addiction Journal Editors, (ISAJE), Chicago, Illinois, September 3-4, 2014. [Invited speaker].

2014 International Academy of Nursing Editors (INANE), Portland, Maine, August 3-6, 2014. [Invited speaker].

2014 Международная Академия Бизнеса (Almaty Management University), Almaty, Kazakhstan. Gave a live talk via Skype to a workshop, June 25, 2014. [Invited speaker].

2014 Text & Academic Authors Association, Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, June 20-21, 2014. [Invited plenary speaker].

9 2014 National Press Foundation / Anschutz Health and Wellness Center Obesity Issues Program 2014, Aurora, Colorado. June 9, 2014. [Invited speaker].

2014 New Jersey Library Association, Annual Conference, Atlantic City, New Jersey. June 2-4, 2014. [Invited speaker].

2014 Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, 2014 Annual Conference, Dallas, Texas, May 14-16, 2014. [Invited speaker].

2014 Council of Science Editors, Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, May 2-5, 2014. [Invited speaker].

2014 University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point, University Library, Stevens Point, Wisconsin, April 25, 2014. [Invited speaker].

2014 Translational Science 2014, Washington, D.C., April 10, 2014. [Invited speaker].

2014 Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, Washington. Speaker series, March 24, 2014. [Invited speaker].

2014 Foothills Infectious Disease Seminar (CSU and U.S. National Centers for Disease Control). Fort Collins, Colorado, February 20, 2014. [Invited speaker].

2014 American Accounting Association, Accounting Programs Leadership Group, San Antonio, Texas, February 9-11, 2014. [Invited speaker].

2014 U.S. State Department / Institute for International Education, Workshop on Building Academic Research Capacity, Erbil, Iraq, February 3-5, 2014. Gave four talks and moderated one discussion session. [Invited speaker].

2013 Monmouth University, Long Branch, New Jersey. Gave two talks, one to the College of Science and one to the faculty union, November 20, 2013. [Invited speaker].

2013 University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba. Gave two talks, one open to the university community and one open to librarians, October 24, 2013. [Invited speaker].

2013 Open Access Week, 2013. Presented three separate webinars, one for Syracuse University, One for Galileo, the University System of Georgia, and one for the University of South Florida / North American Serials Interest Group. [Invited speaker].

2013 Colorado Association of Libraries Annual Conference, Julie J. Boucher Memorial Lecture on Intellectual Freedom, 2013, panel presentation with Carson Block and Rick Rinehart, Loveland, Colorado, October 19, 2013. [Invited].

2013 Special Libraries Association, Silicon Valley Chapter, meeting, August 21, 2013 [Invited speaker; also broadcast via webcast].

2013 International Society of Managing and Technical Editors (ISMTE), North American Conference, Washington, D.C., August 6-7, 2013 [Invited keynote panel speaker and invited breakout session speaker].

2013 Text and Academic Authors Association, 26th Annual Conference, Reno, Nevada, June 21-22, 2013. [Invited speaker].

2013 Ethnographic and Qualitative Research Conference, 25th Annual Conference, Cedarville, Ohio, June 7-8, 2013. [Invited keynote speaker].

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2013 UCCS Copyright Conference, Colorado Springs, Colorado, June 4, 2013. [Invited speaker]

2013 University of North Texas 4th Open Access Symposium, Dallas Texas, May 30-31, 2013. [Invited speaker].

2010 Computational Bioscience Program Seminar, Anschutz Medical Campus, University of Colorado -- The Downside(s) of Open-Access, Scholarly Publishing, Aurora, Colorado. [Invited].

2010 University of Colorado Denver, Open Access Forum – The Downside(s) of Open-Access, Scholarly Publishing, Aurora, Colo.

2010 Colorado Library Association, Technical Services and Automation Division – Library Databases and Word-Sense Disambiguation, Denver, Colo.

2010 Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries, Prospector Pre-Conference – A New Entry to Prospector through Discovery Layers, Estes Park, Colo. Co-presented with Rick Boeder.

2009 American Library Association, Midwinter Conference, Innovative Users Group Meeting – Free Books: How Libraries Can Take Advantage of Open-Access, Digitized Books, Denver, Colo.

2008 Nebraska Library Association, Technical Services Round Table, Spring Meeting – Metadata: Principles and Practice, Aurora, Neb. [Keynote speaker, invited].

2007 Colorado Academic Library Summit (2nd) -- Metadata Culture vs. Keyword Culture: Observations on Search Technology Evolution in Academic Libraries, Denver, Colo.

2005 Rocky Mountain Regional Innovative Users Group – The Principles of Manual Authority Control, Boulder, Colo.

2005 Canadian Metadata Forum, Library and Archives Canada – The Death of Metadata, Ottawa, Ont. [Invited].

2002 Rocky Mountain Regional Innovative Users Group – Millennium Create Lists and Global Update, Loveland, Colo.

2001 Colorado Library Association, Technical Services and Automation Division -- Data Quality in Dublin Core Metadata, Denver, Colo.

1997 American Theological Library Association, 51st Annual Conference --Cataloging Electronic Resources: Monographs, Boston, Mass.

Recognitions, Honors, etc.

Julie J. Boucher Award for Intellectual Freedom -- 2013, Colorado Association of Libraries.

Excellence in Research Award – 2013. Auraria Library, University of Colorado Denver, Downtown Denver Campus

Association for Library Collections and Technical Services, Outstanding Publication Award, 2012, for the paper, "Academic library databases and the problem of word-sense ambiguity."

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Excellence in Librarianship Award – 2008. Auraria Library, University of Colorado Denver, Downtown Denver Campus

Excellence in Research Award – 2007. Auraria Library, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, Downtown Denver Campus

Excellence in Research Award – 2006. Auraria Library, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, Downtown Denver Campus

Samuel Lazerow Fellowship for Research in Collections and Technical Services in Academic and Research Libraries – 2002. Association of College & Research Libraries

Unit Merit Award – 2002. Auraria Library, University of Colorado at Denver

Professional Organizations

American Library Association Association of College and Research Libraries Colorado Library Association Society for Scholarly Publishing Text and Academic Authors Association

Other Indicators of Scholarship

Editorships

2008 Guest editor, Cataloging & Classification Quarterly special issue on bibliographic database quality (vol. 46.1). With Stephen Hearne.

2007-2008 Editor, Journal of Library Metadata

2002-2005 Editor for Network Access and Applications, Cataloging & Classification Quarterly

2005-2012 Member, Editorial Board, Cataloging & Classification Quarterly

Grants

2015 Laura and John Arnold Foundation: $3000.

2014 Laura and John Arnold Foundation: $3000

2013 Laura and John Arnold Foundation. Two grants, amount awarded: $2000, $3000.

Service

Library

2013 Director's Review Committee 2011-2012 Chair, Auraria Library Faculty 2010-2011 Member, Shared Leadership Team 2010-2011 Member, Organizational Knowledge Management Task Group 2010-2011 Member, Resource Discovery Task Group

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University

2015-2017 Faculty Assembly GLBTI Committee 2014-2015 OIT Governance Committee — Research & Creative Endeavors 2013-2015 Vice Chancellor's Advisory Committee for Reappointment, Tenure, and Promotion 2008-2009 Vice Provost's Diversity Committee 2008-2009 Chair, Faculty Assembly GLBT Committee 2007 Discovery, Creativity & Innovation Task Force 2007-2008 Co-Chair, Faculty Assembly GLBT Committee 2006-2007 University Librarian and Director of the Auraria Library Search Committee 2004-2006 Faculty Assembly Disabilities Committee 2005-2006 Academic Master Planning Diversity / Inclusion Committee

Regional

2014-2015 Dean's Review Committee, Kraemer Family Library, University of Colorado Colorado Springs

2007-2010 Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries, Alliance Digital Repository, Metadata Committee

Professional Associations

2010-2012 Program for Cooperative Cataloging liaison to the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services, Subject Analysis Committee

2006-2012 SACO At-Large Committee, American Library Association / Library of Congress

2004- 2006 Book Award Committee, GLBT Roundtable, American Library Association

2001-2003 Program Committee, GLBT Roundtable, American Library Association

2002 Member of Policy and Research Committee, Cataloging and Classification Section, Association for Library Collections & Technical Services

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