Staff Biography

INTERESTS

• Collections, Economics of information, scholarly communication and publishing, space issues in libraries; development of e-science.

• Scott became Head of Collections in 2011. From 2008-2010 he was Bibliographer for the Sciences and Technology,
• Before coming to Syracuse, Scott Warren was the Associate Director of the Textiles Library and Engineering Services at the North Carolina State University Libraries. From 2002-2004 he was Librarian for Physical and Mathematical Sciences and in 2001 began his career at the NCSU Libraries as a Library Fellow.  He holds an MA in Library and Information Studies from The University of Wisconsin-Madison and B.S.’s in Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy and a B.A. in History from The Pennsylvania State University

PAPERS AND TALKS (selected)

• Why does Google Scholar Sometimes Ask for Money Leveraging the Economics of Information and Scholarly Communication Processes to Enrich Instruction. Conference paper and talk presented at the LOEX 2008 Conference, Chicago, IL, 5/1/2008.Poster presented at ARL 2008 Fall Forum: Reinventing Science Librarianship, Arlington, VA, 10/16/2008.

• Where does ALL the Money Go? Engaging Science and Engineering Students in Scholarly Communication and the Economics of Information.; Poster given at the ARL 2008 Fall Forum: Reinventing Science Librarianship, Arlington, VA, 10/16/2008. Variations on this poster as well as a talk have been given at several venues including:

1. EDUCAUSE 2007 Annual Conference. Seattle, WA, 10/2007.
2. LAUNCH-CH Annual Research Forum. Chapel Hill, NC, 5/23/2007.
3. Fourth Evidence Based Library and Information Practice Conference (EBLIP4), Chapel Hill, NC, 5/7/2007.
4. Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) 13th National Conference. Baltimore, MD, 3/30/2007.
5. American Society for Engineering Educations (ASEE), Engineering Libraries Division, 2006 Annual Conference, Chicago, IL 06/21/2006.

• Endeca and Faceted Browsing: Giving the User a Useful Catalog. Keynote talk presented at the South Carolina Library Association’s College and University Section Workshop, Keeping Up with Our Patrons: Adapting to User Expectations. Columbia, SC, 6/7/2007.

• Virtual Browsing via Deeplinked Catalog Searches: LC Subject Headings Gain Advantages of Frequency Distributions.Talk given at the Digital Library Federation 2004 Fall Forum. Baltimore, MD, 10/27/2004.

LIBGUIDES

• Reaxys, http://researchguides.library.syr.edu/reaxys
• NIH Public Access Policy Guidelines, http://researchguides.library.syr.edu/nih
• Ebooks, http://researchguides.library.syr.edu/ebooks