Cecelia M. Brown Professor School of Library and Information Studies The University of Oklahoma 401 West Brooks, Room 120 Norman, Oklahoma 73019-0528 e-mail: cbrown@ou.edu Voice:   (405) 325-3921 FAX:     (405) 325-7648

Education:

M.L.I.S, 1996, University of Oklahoma
Ph.D., 1988, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
M.S., 1985, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
B.A.Sc., 1982, University of Guelph

Courses:

LIS/KM 5053: Information Users in the Knowledge Society
LIS 5353:  Collection Development and Management
LIS 5503:  Information Literacy and Instruction
LIS/KM 5523:  Online Information Retrieval
LIS 5293: Special Library and Information Center Administration
LIS 5153:  Science and Technology Information Sources

Research:

My research program focuses on the information-seeking behavior of scientists in the electronic e nvironment as well as informaton literacy of science undergraduate and graduate students.

Click to download the pdfs of surveys used study the information behavior of Environmental Engineers in Oklahoma and Thailand.

Selected Publications:

Brown, C.M. 2007. The Role of Web Based Information in the Scholarly Communication ofChemists: Citation and Content Analyses of American Chemical Society Journals. The Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 58(13): 2055 - 2065. Brown, C.M. 2006.   Recruiting the Best.   Science and Technology Libraries. 27 (1/2) 41-53. Brown, C.M. and Murphy, T.J. 2005. Understanding Student Learning in Undergraduate Information Studies Internships. Journal of Education for Library and Information Science. 46(3): 234-247. Ortega, L. and C.M. Brown. 2005. The Face of 21st Century Physical Science Librarianship. Science and Technology Libraries. 26(2): 71-90. Brown, C.M. and Ortega, L.  2005.  Information Seeking Behavior of Physical Science Librarians: Does Research Inform Practice?  College and Research Libraries. 66(3): 231-247. Brown, C.M.  2005.  Where Do Molecular Biology Graduate Students Find Information? Science and Technology Libraries. 25(3): 89-104. Brown, C.M.   2004. The Matthew Effect of the Annual Reviews of Series and the Flow of Scientific Communication through the World Wide Web.   Scientometrics 60(1): 25-30. Brown, C.M., Murphy, T.J., and Nanny, M.  2003.  Turning Techno-Savvy into Info-Savvy:  Authentically Integrating Information Literacy into the Science Curriculum.  Journal of Academic Librarianship, 29(6): 386-398. Brown, C.M.  2003.  The Changing Face of Scientific Discourse:  Analysis of Genomic and Proteomic Database Usage and Acceptance.  Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology 54(10): 926-938. Brown, C.M.  2003.  The Role of Electronic Preprints in Chemical Communication:  Analysis of Citation, Usage, and Acceptance in the Journal Literature.  The Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology 54(5): 262-271. Brown, C.M. and Lee R. Krumholz.  2002.  Integrating Information Literacy into the Science Curriculum.  College & Research  Libraries 63(2): 111-123. Brown, C.M. 2001. The Coming of Age of E-prints in the Literature of Physics. Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship-Referred Articles Section.  Volume 31.  Available online: http://www.library.ucsb.edu/istl/01-summer/ Brown, C.M. 2001. The E-volution of Preprints in the Scholarly Communication of Physicists and Astronomers. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology52(3):187-200. Brown, C.M. and T.J. Murphy. 2000. Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education.  Reference Services Review 28(1): 65-81. Brown, C.M. 1999. Information Seeking Behavior of Scientists in the Electronic Information Age: Astronomers, Chemists, Mathematicians, and Physicists. Journal of the American Society forInformation Science 50(10): 929-943. Brown, C.M. 1999. Information Literacy of Physical Science Graduate Students in the Information Age.  College & Research Libraries 60(5): 426-439. Brown, C.M. 1998.  Complementary use of the SciSearch database for improved biomedical information seeking.  Bulletin of the Medical Library Association 86(1):63-67. Brown, C.M. 1998.  The benefits of searching Embase versus Medline for Pharmaceutical Information. Online & CD-ROM Review 22(1):3-8. Brown, C.M. 1997. Where to Find Nutritional Science Information on the World Wide Web. The Journal of Nutrition 127(8):1527-1532.

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