My latest book, Scholarship in the Digital Age: Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet, was published in 2007 by the MIT Press. It received the Best Information Science Book of the Year Award from the American Society for Information Science and Technology. The book examines the roles that information technology plays at every stage in the life cycle of a research project and contrasts these new capabilities with the relatively stable system of scholarly communication, which remains based on publishing in journals, books, and conference proceedings.

My earlier sole-authored book, From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure: Access to Information in the Networked World (MIT Press, 2000; paperback edition 2003), also won the Best Information Science Book of the Year Award from the American Society for Information Science and Technology. That book addresses the then-emerging information infrastructures around the world, assessing the role of libraries and computer networks, and includes a comparative analysis of U.S. and  European developments through the 1990s.  From Gutenberg to the Global Information Infrastructure has been translated into Croatian, Lithuanian, Chinese, Farsi, and Armenian, and other translations are pending.

For ease of maintenance, publications and links are available through my Selected Works site, part of the University of California eScholarship institutional repository.

Publications are divided into six general categories, and within each category listed in reverse chronological order (most recent first).  Material provided or linked encompasses formal publications (books, journal articles, conference proceedings), and less formal scholarly products such as reports, posters, and presentations.

Publication Categories:

Scholarly Communication includes research on scholarly publishing, scholarly practices, and bibliometrics. Disciplinary oriented research such as digital humanities is listed here.

Digital Libraries includes research on design, development, and use of digital libraries, online catalogs, and other forms of information retrieval systems.

Scientific Data Practices includes research on how scientists and their partners in computer science and engineering produce, use, and manage data.

Information Seeking includes research on how people seek information.

Education & Learning includes research on pedagogical aspects of information systems, cyberlearning, and comparative studies of research and learning practices.

International & Comparative includes research on the development of information infrastructure, the Internet, and digital libraries in Central and Eastern Europe following the end of the Cold War.