David Stern
Associate University Librarian for Scholarly Resources

Rockefeller Library
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David's Subject Guides include:
NIH Public Access Policy
Scholarly Communications Information

Biographical info
David Stern is the Associate University Librarian for Scholarly Resources at Brown University as of March, 2008. He has degrees in Biological Sciences (University of Connecticut), History & Philosophy of Science (Indiana University), and Library Science (Indiana University). He was the Director of Science Libraries and Information Services at Yale University from 1995 through January 2008. He has also worked as a general librarian, a medical librarian, a science librarian in centralized and departmental libraries, and as a library administrator. In addition, he has taught library science graduate courses (University of Illinois and Southern Connecticut State University) and has served as a consultant and advisor to a number of professional societies and commercial publishers and online services. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Special Libraries Association (2000-2003), and now serves as the Chair of the Knowledge Management Division. He also serves as Editor of the journal Science and Technology Libraries.

His research involves electronic retrieval and transmission of data, focused primarily upon scholars workstations. He has developed a web-based expert systems librarian emulator, and is also working on the development of standards and cost models for federated full-text search and retrieval systems.

His resume and publications include over a dozen journal articles, several book chapters, the book Guide to Information Sources in the Physical Sciences (Colorado: Libraries Unlimited, 2000), and his two edited special issues of Science and Technology Libraries entitled: Digital Libraries: Philosophies, technical design considerations, and example scenarios and Competencies for Science Librarians.

He has been a speaker at conferences of ALA, SLA, AAAS, SSP, ASIS, NASIG, Online, InfoToday, CESSE, NFAIS, and the Library of Congress.