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Brian Simboli, Ph.D.
Science Librarian, Lehigh University
brs4@lehigh.edu; (610) 758-5003.

Areas of Responsibility:

Biology, Chemistry, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Mathematics, Physics, Psychology.

Librarianship areas of special interest:

Issues in reference collection management; citation management software; library exhibitions; digital projects; trends in journal publishing.

Library-related publications:

• Clustering Concepts (with wife Min Zhang), Science.
• Citation Managers and Citing-Cited Data (with Min Zhang), Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship.
• EndNote at Lehigh (with Sharon Siegler), Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship.
  

Presentations/poster sessions/other materials:

• Conference presentation at "Scientific Publishing: What Does the Future Hold?" at Lehigh University, Saturday, November 12, 2005. At the conference website are links to .ppt (containing notes) and to pdfs for .ppt slides and accompanying notes.
• "The ILLiad and the Odyssey: Access and Affordability of Journal Literature", links to powerpoint and to full text, posted at National Academy of Science website for workshop "Are Chemical Journals Too Expensive and Inaccessible?"
• Presentation (with Christine Roysdon) to Biology Dept., Lehigh University about publishing and journal trends in biology, 2005.
• "Library Digital Projects: Crossroads for Collaborations (with Rob Weidman). Poster session, LITA, 2005. Link to full text.
• Talk "Open-Access Ejournals: An Overview of Trends and their Practical Relevance at Lehigh". Lehigh University, July 2004.
• "Science Information Literacy: Faculty-Librarian-Vendor Collaboration". Poster session, ACRL Science and Tech. Section,Orlando ALA, June 2004.
• EndNote poster session at PALA.
  

Exhibitions at Lehigh and associated webpages:

• Exhibit (with Ilhan Citak) "Planet Lehigh: Early Astronomy". Online counterpart.
• Exhibit (with Ilhan Citak) in conjunction with website Geology of Lehigh and Northampton Counties, Pennsylvania: Historical Works ; for latter, served as project leader. Background.
• Heavenly Spheres: Works in Early Astronomy at Lehigh (with Ilhan Citak)  Online counterpart. Background.
• Late nineteenth century literature/125th Linderman Library celebration (with Ilhan Citak)
• Recent artifacts from history of computing.

Some Webpages:

• Subscription Subsidized Open Access & The Crisis in Scholarly Publishing
• "Cited/Citing Resources": A Special Way to Build Bibliographies
• Electronic Information Resources for Chemistry
• Historic Stones of Bethlehem, PA: Resources

Education:

• Swarthmore College (B.A. with High Honors; Phi Beta Kappa. Major Philosophy, with minors in Physics, Sociology and Anthropology; Brand Blanshard Prize in philosophy)
• University of Notre Dame (M.A. and Ph.D., philosophy)
• Drexel University (Masters, library science).
• Lehigh University: class in history of economic thought, summer, 2004, and directed reading in economics. Currently studying macroeconomics and statistics.
  

Off-hours academic activities:

• Current project: working on book about ethical dimensions of markets.

Fun stuff:

Listserv units; Journals futures market

last updated 3/1/07