dLIST: A Working Bibliography and Community Record

About dLIST. dLIST was born on 15 July 2002 as the first discipline-focused open-access repository for Library and Information Science. It was built on the open-source EPrints platform and pioneered OAI-PMH metadata harvesting, interoperability, and federated discovery, and was envisioned as an intellectual commons — what we might now call a LIS corpus — linking research, education, and practice across Library and Information Science, Archival Science, Museum Informatics, and Information Systems. Features such as “Latest News” were ahead of many repositories, reinforcing dLIST’s role as an active scholarly commons rather than a static archive. dLIST closed to new submissions in 2013 and is preserved in the University of Arizona Campus Repository and continues to serve scholars worldwide. The commons works.

The Vision. When the field was separating knowledge into distinct streams — open access for articles, open educational resources for teaching, open data for datasets, open peer review as a separate experiment — dLIST held a different conviction: that a discipline's knowledge is one living corpus. Peer-reviewed papers, preprints, teaching materials, datasets, conference presentations, reviews, classics — all belong together, rights-respecting, community-governed, openly accessible. What we now call a training corpus. What dLIST called the commons.

Key Contributions

Training: Beyond collecting content and developing infrastructure, dLIST trained LIS graduate students in digital repository work, focusing on metadata, copyright, and scholarly communication — areas rare in the profession at the time.
Tools & Innovation: CS and ECE graduate students were trained too in the commons, using existing open source software to develop aggregation and federated searching, and to leverage RSS feeds and write new features like "Latest News" — novel for repositories in 2004–2005, before social media and before the iPhone.
Open Peer Review: dLIST pioneered open peer review for LIS scholarship. Scholars submitted abstracts through the system; chairs and registered users openly deposited their reviews alongside the submissions. The ASIS&T 2006 preconference symposium "Interrogating Information Realities of Information and Communication Systems" used dLIST this way — Kristin Eschenfelder reviewing Marija Dalbello's abstract (eprint #1473) openly in the repository. The technology worked. Widespread adoption didn't follow — a reminder that infrastructure alone cannot change scholarly behavior.
Status: Closed to new submissions in 2013, dLIST is preserved in the University of Arizona Campus Repository and continues to serve scholars from around the world.

Content Overview. The preserved collection reflects dLIST's commitment to open access across all knowledge types:

Content Types: Conference Papers (378), Journal Articles (289), Presentations (163), Preprints (97), Articles (73), Newsletters (68), Book Chapters (59), Reports (40), and more.
Top Journals: SHARP News (57 items), Extensions & Corrections to the UDC (31), JELIS (19), JASIST (19), D-Lib Magazine (9).
Top Authors/Depositors: Hsinchun Chen (120), A.S. Chaudhry (97), C. Khoo (97), D. Singh (97), Anita Sundaram Coleman (64), Andrew Dillon (63), SHARP Society (58), Loet Leydesdorff (50), Birger Hjørland (44), Subbiah Arunachalam (37). Collaborative efforts — including 58 SHARP News issues through Marija Dalbello's book history society advocacy, Kristin Eschenfelder's ASIS&T SIG deposits, digitization of ALISE's journal JELIS and the 2005 conference, and the dLIST Classics partnership with SRELS India which first made S.R. Ranganathan's texts openly available — highlight dLIST's role in fostering the scholarly commons. For details on each see below.

Timeline

2001–2002

Mark Kelly's independent study — IRLS 699 "Revitalizing the Academic Commons: Open Source Software, Gift Cultures and Higher Education" — supervised by Coleman at SIRLS, opens the inquiry that becomes dLIST. Coleman installs EPrints on a server in her own office and launches dLIST herself in Summer 2002. Seed funding from UA SBSRI ($5,000 for server).This is pre‑social‑media and pre‑iPhone, when blogging was only beginning to take off. The scholarly‑communication ‘serials price’ crisis affecting libraries was well known, and the Budapest Open Access Initiative was released publicly on 14 February 2002. EPrints, an OAI‑compliant repository package developed at the University of Southampton, first appeared around 2000; by contrast, the major US open‑source repository project DSpace developed later in 2002 and remained in early/insider development for several years; its broader public releases and community adoption occurred later in the decade.

2002–2003

Gaurav Gupta joins as first ECE GRA — systems administration support. CALIBER 2003 presentation, Ahmedabad, India. Arlene Taylor (author of the textbook The Organization of Information) adopts Coleman's "Knowledge Sttructures Toolbox," deposited in Jan 2003. NSF NSDL grant application (~$400,000) rejected. S. Karthik (ECE) joins as second GRA. OAI-PMH integration work deepens. Educause NLII presentation, New Orleans.

2004–2006

TRIF grant awarded: $21,397 from State of Arizona for "Information Technology & Society Research Lab: The Study of Scholarly Communication in Digital Repositories." Coleman PI. All money goes to GRAs and servers. Joseph Roback (CS) joins — develops OAI-PMH implementation and EPrints patches that become dLIST's technical foundation; builds DL-Harvest using PKP Harvester with flow control, sets, and advanced searching improvements. JingFeng Xia joins as metadata and copyright editor. Shawn Nelson contributes to metadata and collections. UA library declines to host server; Paul Bracke moves it to Arizona Health Sciences Library. JCDL 2004, Tucson. ITS Research Lab presentation. IFLA 2005 poster, Oslo. ALISE 2005 poster, Boston. ASIS&T 2005, Charlotte (multiple presentations). By late 2005: fewer than 500 documents, just over 700 registered users — growth slow, solutions tried ranging from outreach to R&D.

2005

IMLS National Leadership Grant application rejected. DL-Harvest aggregator launched publicly. Advisory Board established — members include Michael Gorman (Dean, California State Fresno). dLIST 2005 scholarly communication survey launched. Announced in D-Lib Magazine In Brief, October 2005.

2006–2007

dLIST Classics project launches with Proposition 301 / ACIST funding — specifically allocated for digitization. Phase 1 (May 2006): Five Laws of Library Science digitized by Michael May, Carnegie-Stout Public Library, Dubuque, Iowa — a public librarian from Iowa making India's foundational library science text openly accessible globally. Permission granted by SRELS (Neelameghan, Prasad, Raghavan, DRTC) and Advisory Board member Arunachalam. Phase 2 (Fall 2006): five additional Ranganathan titles, digitized by Joy Wilcox, SIRLS. Phase 3 (Spring 2007): coordinated by Cheryl Knott — four more Ranganathan titles plus three additional classics including Pauline Atherton's Putting Knowledge to Work. Digitizer: Susan Ditch; Quality Control: Megan Plesea; Digitization Training: Han Yan; Book Editor: Barbara Hutchinson. Twelve titles total. ECDL Alicante (team presentation). 9th ISKO Vienna. OR2007, San Antonio. Dominika Sokol presents marketing paper at BOBCATSSS, Prague. By 2007: 800 documents, 1,200 registered users. Coleman named Library Journal Movers and Shakers 2007 — "Global Thinker." Nominated by Kristin Eschenfelder, University of Wisconsin.

2013

dLIST closes to new submissions but continues to be accessible to scholars — preserved in the UA Campus Repository. E-LIS, the Italian subject repository that ran parallel to dLIST, later becomes effectively non-functional. The disciplinary repository model dLIST pioneered has not been sustained by the profession. But dLIST itself remains available.

2026

Faculty editor Marija Dalbello reports still consulting and searching dLIST regularly — more than a decade after it closed to new submissions. The dLIST Working Bibliography and Community Record published. COAR IRD and DOAPR correction requests submitted. ALA150 blog post forthcoming: "The Future of Librarians: dLIST, A Story the Commons Keeps." — the conversation dLIST started continues. As of 13 May 2026, statistical usage of dLIST shows the top item visit of all time is the ALA ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education (2000) with 52.1 k views, followed by S.R. Ranganathan's The Five Laws of Library Science (48.3k). The top download of all time is John Willinsky's 2006 book The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship (31.0k) followed by Jennifer Trant's 2009 Tagging, Folksonomy and Art Museums: Results of steve.museum's research (26.1k), and the ALA ACRL 2000 standards are the third (24.9k). Other dLIST CLassics are also popular views and downloads.

Funding Record The complete picture

dLIST ran on $21,397 in state technology funding plus seed money and graduate student labor. The federal grants that would have sustained it were declined. The infrastructure it proved is now the backbone of library discovery worldwide.

Year	Source	Amount	Purpose	Outcome
Summer 2002	University of Arizona, SBSRI	$5,000	Digital Libraries as Virtual Communities — seed for dLIST server. No personnel funds.	Funded
Summer 2002–2003	University of Arizona, Prop 301	$9,760	Mapping the Intellectual Structure of Information Science versus Information Technology, Part 1. PI: Coleman.	Funded
Summer 2003	University of Arizona, Prop 301	$16,571	Mapping the Intellectual Structure of Information Science versus Information Technology, Part 2. PI: Coleman.	Funded
2003	NSF National Science Digital Library (NSDL)	~$400,000	Open access LIS infrastructure	Rejected
Summer 2004–Summer 2006	State of Arizona TRIF	$21,397	Information Technology & Society Research Lab: The Study of Scholarly Communication in Digital Repositories. PI: Coleman. All funds to GRAs and servers. SIRLS matched 1 RA at 10 hrs/week, Fall 2004–Spring 2005.	Funded
2005	IMLS National Leadership Grants	Not specified	JELIS digitization, open access impact study. PI: Coleman & Knott.	Rejected
Total dLIST funding received		$52,728	Plus in-kind SIRLS RA match, Fall 2004–Spring 2005.

The dLIST Community Those who built it

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Anita Sundaram Coleman

Founder & Principal Investigator

SIRLS, University of Arizona. Conceived dLIST from Mark Kelly's independent study. Installed EPrints on a server in her own office and launched dLIST in Summer 2002 — before any GRA joined the project. Led all aspects of the project 2002–2008. JELIS co-editor. Copyright Transfer Agreement research. Library Journal Movers & Shakers 2007 — "Global Thinker." TRIF grant PI.

Now: Infophilia, A Positive Psychology of Information. Adjunct Lecturer, iSchool Illinois.

Paul Bracke

Project Manager & Server Administrator

Arizona Health Sciences Library. Project Manager August 2002–April 2005. Moved the dLIST server to AHSL when UA library would not support it — an act that saved the project. After April 2005 the server moved to the Learning Technologies Center under Garry Forger. Core team member throughout.

Now: Dean, Wayne State University Library System and School of Information Sciences, Detroit, Michigan.

Cheryl Knott

Faculty Editor & JELIS Co-Editor

SIRLS, University of Arizona. Faculty editor on dLIST. Co-editor of JELIS (Journal of Education for Library and Information Science) alongside Coleman (2005-2007). Co-author of IMLS grant proposal. ALISE 2005 poster co-presenter.

Gaurav Gupta

ECE GRA — 2002–2003

Electrical and Computer Engineering, UA, 2002–2003. First ECE GRA on the dLIST project. Learned copyright and self-archiving practices as part of the dLIST team.

Now: WW Principal Partner Solutions Architect, IoT & Physical AI, AWS. 18 granted patents.

S. Karthik

ECE GRA — Second Technical Iteration

Electrical and Computer Engineering, UA, 2003–2004. Co-authored D-Lib Magazine paper on OAI-PMH federated searching. Improved on first technical iteration. Presented dLIST work at Educause — bringing the repository to the educational technology community.

Now: Staff Software Engineer, Samsara (IoT). Previously Senior Software Engineer, Amazon (11 years); Garmin ADAS.

Joseph A. Roback

CS GRA — OAI-PMH & DL-Harvest

Computer Science, UA, 2003–2005. Developed OAI-PMH implementation, EPrints patches, and DL-Harvest improvements (flow control, sets, advanced searching using PKP Harvester). PhD in parallel computing (advisor: Gregory R. Andrews). Published: Gossamer multicore language, IEEE 2010.

Now: Principal Engineer, NVIDIA.

JingFeng Xia

Metadata & Copyright Editor

SIRLS, UA. Metadata and copyright editor. Co-author of ALISE 2005 CTA poster. His subsequent research on disciplinary repositories, open access, and predatory publishing built directly on the intellectual and practical foundations of his dLIST work — a trajectory that began with learning copyright at Arizona.

Now: University Librarian, Dominican University (2024–). h-index 21, 2,642 citations. Published extensively on open access and scholarly communication.

Shawn Nelson

LIS GRA — Metadata & Co-Presenter

University of Arizona LIS graduate research assistant. Contributed to metadata and collections work. Co-presenter on the ALISE 2005 CTA poster — one of the LIS GRAs who helped build dLIST's intellectual infrastructure alongside the ECE and CS GRAs who built its technical infrastructure.

Now: Assistant Director of Collection Management, LSS Libraries.

Yu Su

LIS GRA — Metadata

SIRLS, University of Arizona. LIS graduate research assistant contributing to metadata work on dLIST.

Now: UA Main Library, University of Arizona.

Jeanne Richardson

Intern Supervisor — Collection Development

Arizona State University. Supervised Daniela Solomon's collection development internship with dLIST — a cross-institutional intern arrangement that extended dLIST's reach beyond UA.

Dominika Sokol

Marketing — European Student

Charles University, Prague / SIRLS, UA. Wrote and presented the dLIST marketing strategy paper at BOBCATSSS 2007, Prague. The international reach of the dLIST community made visible.

Lisa Bunker

Brand Design — Logo & Stationery

University of Arizona student. Created the dLIST logo and stationery — the visual identity of the project.

Now: Social Media Librarian, Pima County Public Library, Arizona. Still in libraries, still in Arizona, more than twenty years later.

Mark Kelly

Independent Study Student — The Originating Question

University of Arizona SIRLS student, Spring 2002. Independent study supervised by Coleman: IRLS 699 "Revitalizing the Academic Commons: Open Source Software, Gift Cultures and Higher Education." The inquiry he opened became dLIST — the project began with his question.

Now: Pacifica Graduate Institute Graduate Research Library, Carpinteria, California.

Stefan Wais

Graphic Design — NSDL & IFLA Poster

Designed the professional dLIST poster for the National Science Digital Library (NSDL) and IFLA 2005, Oslo — the poster that introduced dLIST to international audiences.

Marija Dalbello

Faculty Editor, Rutgers University

Faculty editor on dLIST. Presented dLIST at a SHARP EU meeting — the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing — introducing an open access digital repository to an audience of book historians who were, at that time, largely skeptical of digital texts. A significant act of advocacy in a conservative scholarly community. Commissioned the dLIST mugs. Still searches dLIST as of 2026.

Now: Professor of Library and Information Science, Rutgers SC&I. Books include A History of Modern Librarianship (2015) and Visible Writings (2011). Board chair, Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (2019–2021). Visiting fellow, École nationale des Chartes, Sorbonne.

Kristin Eschenfelder

Faculty Editor, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Faculty editor on dLIST. Nominated Coleman for Library Journal Movers & Shakers 2007, describing dLIST as "a cross-institutional open access digital archive for the information sciences." At UW-Madison since 2000 — the entire dLIST period and beyond.

Now: Professor and Academic Associate Dean, School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences, UW-Madison. Appointed Interim Dean, UW College of Letters & Science, May 2026. Research: digital intellectual property, open access, scholarly communications, organizational sustainability of digital repositories. ASIS&T History Award 2012. IMLS and Sloan Foundation grants.

Paul F. Marty

Faculty Editor, Florida State University

Faculty editor on dLIST. Research in museum informatics, technology, innovation, and design in the information society — studying the sociotechnical interactions between people, information, and technology in museums. PhD from iSchool Illinois, the same program as Coleman.

Now: Professor, School of Information, Florida State University, and Associate Vice Provost for Academic Innovation, FSU. Has worked in museum informatics since the mid-1990s. marty.cci.fsu.edu →

Charles W. Bailey Jr.

Scholarly Communication Editor

Assistant Dean, University of Houston. Scholarly communication editor on dLIST. A leader in the open access movement who brought scholarly credibility to the project.

Garry Forger

Learning Technologies Support

Learning Technologies Center, University of Arizona. Provided institutional support for dLIST's technical infrastructure. Listed as dLIST contact in D-Lib Magazine announcement.

K.S. Raghavan

dLIST Classics Partner — DRTC/SRELS

Former Professor, Documentation Research and Training Centre (DRTC), Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore. Acknowledged throughout the dLIST Classics project as one of the SRELS representatives who gave permission to digitize the Ranganathan texts — making the profession's foundational literature openly accessible.

Now: Associate Editor, SRELS Journal of Information and Knowledge (SRELS JIK). The same journal in which Coleman published her 2025 adaptive infophilia paper — the connection across twenty years.

Michael May

dLIST Classics — First Digitizer & Book Editor

Adult Services Librarian, Carnegie-Stout Public Library, Dubuque, Iowa. Digitized the Five Laws of Library Science (1931) — the first dLIST Classics title — in May 2006. Also served as dLIST Classics Book Editor for the first phase. A public librarian from Iowa digitizing India's most important library science text for global open access.

Joy Wilcox

dLIST Classics — Digitizer, Fall 2006

SIRLS, University of Arizona. Digitized the second phase of dLIST Classics — five additional Ranganathan titles — in Fall 2006: Philosophy of Library Classification, Prolegomena to Library Classification (Ed. 3), Classification and Communication, Documentation Genesis and Development, and Documentation and its Facets.

Susan Ditch

dLIST Classics — Digitizer, Spring 2007

SIRLS, University of Arizona. Digitized the third and final phase of dLIST Classics in Spring 2007 — including the remaining Ranganathan titles and three additional classics.

Megan Plesea

dLIST Classics — Quality Control, Spring 2007

SIRLS, University of Arizona. Quality control for the Spring 2007 dLIST Classics digitization phase — ensuring the scholarly integrity of the digitized texts before they were made openly available.

Han Yan

dLIST Classics — Digitization Training & dLIST Editor

Information Systems, University of Arizona. Provided digitization training for the Spring 2007 dLIST Classics phase. Also served as a dLIST editor — spanning both the technical and editorial sides of the project.

Barbara Hutchinson

dLIST Classics — Book Editor, Spring 2007

University of Arizona. dLIST Classics Book Editor for the Spring 2007 phase — overseeing the editorial integrity of the expanded Classics collection including the Neelameghan, Memorabilia Ranganathan, and Pauline Atherton titles.

Advisory Board (established 2005): Subiah Arunachalam (M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, India); Julia Blixrud (Association of Research Libraries); Rachel Bower (Internet Scout Project); Michael Gorman (Dean of Library Services, California State Fresno — author of Our Enduring Values); Birger Hjorland (Royal School of Library and Information Science, Copenhagen); Christopher Khoo (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Scott Nicholson (Syracuse University). Source: D-Lib Magazine In Brief, June 2005.

European liaisons: A. Slavic and M.I. Cordeira worked to spread awareness of dLIST in Europe — helping introduce the repository to European LIS communities at a time when open access repositories were still unfamiliar to many in the field.

Additional contributors include interns who contributed metadata editing, copyright research, and collections work 2002–2007, and an ever-widening circle of subject editors and self-archiving volunteers. The compiler welcomes corrections and additions.

ALA, ALISE: The Institutional Partnership, ASIS&T, IFLA, ISKO 1994–2026

About the Associations. Coleman leveraged her service in major library associations (ALA, ALISE, ASIS&T, IFLA, ISKO) to build awareness of dLIST and the urgency of building LIS's own open access commons. ALA ALCTS (Web Clearinghouse for Teaching Cataloging & Metadata), ALA ARL, ASIS&T (Chair of SIG DL), ISKO are forthcoming below; ALISE's relationship with dLIST was not a grant or a formal MOU — it was a working partnership built on trust, shared values about open access, and active curatorial labor. The dLIST team contacted presenters at the ALISE 2005 Annual Conference (Boston, January 11–14), obtained permissions using a release form, and uploaded their work on their behalf — building the conference archive through rights management and curation. The permission form stated that presenters retained their copyright while granting dLIST the right to deposit and make their work openly accessible. The UA repository today holds 198 results for ALISE-related scholarship across multiple years. The 2005 conference deposit is the most systematically documented.

Coleman's ALISE History

Coleman, A.S. (1994). "The Survivors and the Creators: The Profession Reconsidered." Panel chaired and moderated by Coleman at the ALISE Annual Conference, Curriculum SIG. Panel

Coleman, A.S. (1996). Paper presented at ALISE Annual Conference at June Lester's invitation. Published as: Coleman, A.S. (1996). Public performances and private acts. Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 37(Fall), 325–342. Paper

The paper on LIS and distance learning that grew from this presentation became a JELIS publication — the beginning of Coleman's editorial relationship with the journal.

Coleman, A.S., & Knott, C. (2005–2007). Co-editors, Journal of Education for Library and Information Science (JELIS), ALISE's flagship publication. Editorial

Coleman's co-editorship with Knott was the institutional bridge between dLIST and ALISE — making the connection between the repository and the profession's premier education journal explicit and operational.

JELIS 1996 Digitization Project. (2005–2006). With author permissions obtained by the dLIST team, 18 articles from the 1996 JELIS issues (vol. 37, nos. 1–4) were digitized and deposited in dLIST — making ALISE's flagship journal's 1996 content openly accessible. Digitization

The beginning of what the rejected IMLS grant would have expanded into a complete retrospective digitization of JELIS. The grant asked whether the field that champions open access would open access its own intellectual history. IMLS declined.

Coleman, A.S. (2006). Bibliography of the Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 1984–present. Draft updated June 4, 2006. 805 references (Part I); 1781 entries with abstracts and descriptors (Part II). 342 pages print. Deposited in dLIST. UA Repository → Bibliography

A comprehensive bibliometric record of ALISE's flagship journal, deposited in dLIST — the commons documenting itself.

ALISE Conference Deposits — Representative Works

The dLIST team contacted presenters at the ALISE 2005 Annual Conference (Boston, January 11–14), obtained permissions using a formal release form, and uploaded their work. The UA repository holds 198 results for ALISE-related scholarship across multiple years. The following is a representative selection from 2005 showing the breadth of coverage.

King, J.L. (2005). Stepping up: Shaping the future of the field. Plenary Session 3, ALISE 2005 Annual Conference, Boston. UA Repository → Plenary

King — a key figure in the iSchool movement — deposited his plenary address in dLIST. The field's fracture lines and its commons infrastructure in the same repository.

Belkin, N.J. (2005). Priorities and concerns for education and research in library and information science. Plenary Session 4, ALISE 2005, Boston. UA Repository → Plenary

Tenopir, C. (2006). Not-for-profit scholarly societies and open access journal publishing. "Issues in Scholarly Communication: Electronic Publishing, Open Access, and JELIS" panel, ALISE 2006, San Antonio. UA Repository → Panel

Nicholson, S. (2005). Seeking a core literature: The current state of search education in top LIS schools. Juried paper, Session 5.3, ALISE 2005, Boston. UA Repository → Juried Paper

Nicholson was a dLIST Advisory Board member — his conference paper deposited in the repository he helped govern.

Marty, P.F. (2005). So you want to work in a museum? Guiding the careers of future museum information professionals. Juried paper, Session 4.4, ALISE 2005, Boston. Juried Paper

Marty was a dLIST faculty editor — his conference paper deposited in the repository he helped build.

Lillard, L., & Coleman, A.S. (2005). Preparing students for the international information society: Studying the global context in LIS. Curriculum SIG session, ALISE 2005, Boston, January 11. UA Repository → Presentation

Eschenfelder, K.R. (2009). ALISE Academy: Mid-Career Faculty Workshop. UA Repository → Workshop

Eschenfelder — dLIST faculty editor and Coleman's LJ Movers & Shakers nominator — depositing ALISE Academy materials in dLIST four years after the project's peak. The partnership continued.

2026 — Closing the Circle

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Coleman, A. (2007). Self-archiving and the copyright transfer agreements of ISI-ranked library and information science journals. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 58(2), 286–296. doi:10.1002/asi.20494 JASIST

Direct peer-reviewed output of the dLIST CTA research. Analysis of copyright transfer agreements from 150 ISI-ranked LIS journals to enable self-archiving.

Coleman, A.S., Bracke, P., & Karthik, S. (2004). Integration of non-OAI resources for federated searching in DLIST, an Eprints repository. D-Lib Magazine, 10(7/8). doi:10.1045/july2004-coleman D-Lib

Coleman, A.S., & Roback, J. (2005). Open access federation for library and information science: dLIST and DL-Harvest. D-Lib Magazine, 11(12). doi:10.1045/december2005-coleman D-Lib

Coleman, A.S. (2007). Assessing the value of a journal beyond the impact factor: A case study of JELIS. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 58(8), 1148–1161. doi:10.1002/asi.20599 JASIST

Uses dLIST as the platform for JELIS bibliometric analysis.

D-Lib Magazine Announcements & Reports

Coleman, A. (2005). Open access in library and information science: dLIST 2005 survey, a scholarly communication study. D-Lib Magazine In Brief, 11(10), October. dlib.org → Announcement

Coleman's own contributed piece documenting dLIST's third year, launching the 2005 self-archiving survey, and reporting on DL-Harvest. Key primary source for dLIST history.

Coleman, A. (2005). DLIST Advisory Board and DL-Harvest established. D-Lib Magazine In Brief, 11(6), June. dlib.org → Announcement

Official D-Lib announcement of Advisory Board (including Michael Gorman and Birger Hjorland) and DL-Harvest launch. Confirms Roback's PKP Harvester improvements. Key primary source.

Conference Papers & Presentations

Coleman, A.S., & Bracke, P. (2003). DLIST: Building an international scholarly communication consortium for library and information science. CALIBER 2003, Ahmedabad, India, February 13–15. scholarworks.sjsu.edu → CALIBER

Coleman, A.S., Bracke, P., & Karthik, S. (2004). DLIST: Opening LIS research and practice. Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), Tucson, AZ. IEEE → JCDL

Coleman, A.S. (2005). dLIST. Presentation, ASIS&T Annual Meeting, Charlotte, NC. scholarworks.sjsu.edu → ASIS&T

Coleman, A.S., Knott, C., Xia, J., & Nelson, S. (2005). Self-archiving and the copyright transfer agreements of ISI-ranked library and information science journals. Poster, ALISE Annual Conference, Boston, MA. UA Repository → ALISE

Coleman, A.S., & Knott, C. (2005). Copyright transfer agreements and self-archiving in LIS: A tutorial. Submitted to ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. UA Repository → JCDL

Coleman, A.S. (2005). dLIST: Digital Library of Information Science and Technology. Poster, IFLA World Library and Information Congress, Oslo, Norway, August 14–18. Designed by Stefan Wais. IFLA

Coleman, A.S. (2006). Commons-based digital libraries. ASIS&T SIG/CR Classification Research Workshop, Austin, TX. UA Repository → ASIS&T

Coleman, A.S., & Dervos, D.A. (2006). A common sense approach to defining data, information and metadata. Advances in Knowledge Organization, Vol. 10, 9th ISKO Conference, Vienna. ISKO

Coleman, A.S. (2006/2007). 'Latest News': EPrints meets Web 2.0. European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL), Alicante, Spain. [Team presentation.] ResearchGate → ECDL

Coleman, A.S. (2007). dLIST presentation. 2nd International Conference on Open Repositories (OR2007), San Antonio, Texas, January 23. OR2007

Sokol, D. (2007). Developing marketing strategies for dLIST and the LIS Commons. 15th BOBCATSSS Symposium, January 29–31, Prague. UA Repository → BOBCATSSS Student

Marty, P.F. (2007). The Live Usability Lab: Open Access Archives and Digital Repositories. American Society for Information Science and Technology Annual Meeting, Milwaukee, WI, October 18–25. ASIS&T

Technical Reports & Grant Proposals

Coleman, A.S. (2004). dLIST Research Lab presentation. ITS Research Lab, University of Arizona, August 2004. UA Repository → Report

Knott, C., & Coleman, A.S. (2005). The impact of open access on library and information science. Unfunded proposal, IMLS National Leadership Grants, February 2005. UA Repository → Grant (Rejected)

Proposed to digitize JELIS back issues and study open access impact using dLIST as testbed. IMLS declined. NSF had declined a similar proposal in 2003.

Coleman, A.S. [2004–2005]. dLIST: Digital Library of Information Science and Technology. Poster. National Science Digital Library (NSDL). Designed by Stefan Wais. NSDL → Poster

Community Documents

Digital Library of Information Science and Technology (DLIST). (2002–2026). Cross-institutional, subject-based, open access digital archive for the Information Sciences. University of Arizona Campus Repository. UA Repository → Archive

DL-Harvest. (2005–). Open access aggregator for Library and Information Science, drawing on dLIST and 13 other OAI-PMH compliant archives. Built using PKP Harvester with improvements by Joseph Roback (flow control, sets, advanced searching). Infrastructure

dLIST Information Sciences Digital Archive announces new editors. (2006). American Scientist Open Access Forum, June 8. Harnad Archive → Announcement

dLIST Classics Project. (2006–2007). Digitization of S.R. Ranganathan texts and related LIS classics with permission from SRELS (Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science, India). Permission granted by A. Neelameghan, K.N. Prasad, and K.S. Raghavan (DRTC), and Advisory Board member S. Arunachalam. Funded by Proposition 301 / ACIST. Digitization

Phase 1 (May 2006): Five Laws of Library Science, Ed. 1 (1931). Digitizer: Michael May, Carnegie-Stout Public Library, Dubuque, Iowa. Book Editor: Michael May.

Phase 2 (Fall 2006): Philosophy of Library Classification (1973); Prolegomena to Library Classification, Ed. 3 (1967); Classification and Communication (1951); Documentation Genesis and Development (1973); Documentation and its Facets (1963). Digitizer: Joy Wilcox, SIRLS, University of Arizona.

Phase 3 (Spring 2007) — Project Coordinator: Cheryl Knott, SIRLS: Digitizer: Susan Ditch, SIRLS; Quality Control: Megan Plesea, SIRLS; Digitization Training: Han Yan, Information Systems, UA; Book Editor: Barbara Hutchinson, UA.

Complete list of 12 titles digitized:
By S.R. Ranganathan (9 titles): Five Laws of Library Science Ed. 1 (1931); Philosophy of Library Classification (1973); Prolegomena to Library Classification Ed. 3 (1967); Classification and Communication (1951); Documentation Genesis and Development (1973); Documentation and its Facets (1963); Library Book Selection Ed. 2 (1966); New Education and School Library (1973); Reference Service Ed. 2 (1961).
Other Classics (3 titles): Neelameghan, A. — S.R. Ranganathan's Postulates and Normative Principles (1997); Memorabilia Ranganathan (1994); Atherton, Pauline — Putting Knowledge to Work: An American View of the Five Laws of Library Science (1970).

dLIST registrations in global open access repository infrastructure. Registry

ROAR (Registry of Open Access Repositories) — Record 364. Hosted by the University of Southampton — the same institution that developed EPrints software on which dLIST was built. roar.eprints.org →

OpenDOAR (Directory of Open Access Repositories) — Record 103. Low record number confirming dLIST was among the earliest repositories indexed when OpenDOAR launched.

COAR International Repository Discovery (IRD) — Record c803df11. Managing agents include Kathleen Shearer, COAR Executive Director. Record last updated October 28, 2025 — dLIST remains in active registry maintenance more than a decade after closing to new submissions. COAR IRD →

LYRASIS — Record 3042.

The three registry identifiers — ROAR 364, OpenDOAR 103, COAR/LYRASIS 3042 — document dLIST's place in the global open access infrastructure record from its earliest days through the present.

Coleman, A.S. (2001). Knowledge Structures Toolbox — IRLS 401/501. References and resources for graduate instruction in Organization of Information. University of Arizona. Deposited in dLIST 2003. UA Repository → Teaching Resource

Adjacent Work — Pre-dLIST & NSDL Network

dLIST emerged from Coleman's broader digital library research agenda, which began with her doctoral studies in the 1990s at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and continued through her work on early generation NSF-funded digital library projects: the Alexandria Digital Library (UC Santa Barbara), the Digital Library for Earth Systems Education / DLESE (UCAR, Boulder, Colorado), and GROW-NCERL (University of Arizona). Her Knowledge Structures Toolbox — an early prototype for what became the Metadata Educational Resources Information Clearinghouse (MERIC) — was also used by the Library of Congress in its cataloging and classification products. Research, practice, and teaching were always interconnected in this work.

Coleman, A., Smith, T., Janeé, G., & Frew, J. (2001). The Alexandria Digital Earth Prototype. Proceedings of the First ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), Roanoke, Virginia, June, pp. 118–119. Adjacent

Pre-dLIST geospatial digital library work. The Alexandria Digital Library project at UC Santa Barbara established foundational digital library research in Coleman's network.

Smith, T.R., Buchel, O.A., Coleman, A., & Mayer, R.E. (2001). Learning spaces in digital libraries. In Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries: 5th European Conference (ECDL), Darmstadt, Germany, September 4–9. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, pp. 251–262. Adjacent

Pre-dLIST work on learning environments in digital libraries — research thread that fed directly into dLIST's educational mission.

Budhu, M., & Coleman, A. (2002). The design and evaluation of interactivities in a digital library. D-Lib Magazine, 8(11). dlib.org → Adjacent

GROW-NCERL (National Civil Engineering Educational Resources Library), an NSF-funded NSDL subsidiary. Pre-dLIST work establishing Coleman's digital library research at UA. Paul Bracke is acknowledged — connecting the NSDL and dLIST networks.

Jones, C., Giersch, S., Sumner, T., Wright, M., Coleman, A., & Bartolo, L. (2004). Developing a web analytics strategy for the National Science Digital Library. D-Lib Magazine, 10(10). dlib.org → Adjacent

NSDL network workshop report. References dlist.sir.arizona.edu as a repository where a project bibliography was deposited — dLIST being used by the broader NSDL community.

Awards & Recognition

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Library Journal Movers and Shakers 2007. Category: "Global Thinker." Recognized for creating dLIST and making LIS Classics — including S.R. Ranganathan's works — openly accessible. Nominated by Kristin Eschenfelder, University of Wisconsin-Madison. LJ description: "With nothing but enthusiasm, and a $5000 grant for a server, Coleman began the project in 2002. She's maintained it on a shoestring by enlisting graduate students and an ever-widening circle of volunteers... Coleman has always wanted to leave the planet better than she found it. She's already done so." Library Journal → Award

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Outstanding Teacher Award. University of Arizona, School of Information Resources and Library Science, 2007. Award

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Professional Service Award. Library of Congress and American Library Association, Association for Library Cataloging and Technical Services, 2006. Award

Legacy & Subsequent Work

Suber, P. (2007, March 22). Profile of Anita Coleman and dLIST. Open Access News. legacy.earlham.edu → External Recognition

Peter Suber — author of Open Access (MIT Press, 2012) and editor of the field's leading open access newsletter — profiles Coleman and dLIST following the Library Journal Movers & Shakers 2007 award. Suber adds his own note: "This is much-deserved recognition. I can add that Anita has agreed to let authors of articles about OA self-archive them in dLIST, regardless of their institutional or disciplinary affiliation." The field's leading open access advocate endorsing dLIST's commons policy directly.

Jacsó, P. (2007). [Review of dLIST.] Gale's Database Reviews. [Full citation to be added from GRA verification.] External Recognition

Péter Jacsó — prolific database reviewer whose columns in multiple LIS journals reached thousands of practitioners — reviewed dLIST. Full citation pending GRA verification.

Coleman, A.S. (2025). Adaptive infophilia. SRELS International Journal of Information and Knowledge, 62(1). doi:10.17821/srels/2025/v62i1/171701

Published in SRELS — the same Indian publisher whose Ranganathan texts dLIST Classics digitized with permission twenty years earlier.

Coleman, A.S. (2026). The future of librarians: dLIST, a library story for the age of AI. ALA150 Blog, American Library Association. [Forthcoming.] ala150.org →

The dLIST story told for the profession's 150th anniversary. Accepted by ALA150 editor Phil Morehart, May 2026.

Morrison, H. (2005, November 27). Anita Coleman. OA Librarian. oalibrarian.blogspot.com → External Recognition

Heather Morrison — one of the most widely read open access bloggers of that era — profiles Coleman and dLIST on Thanksgiving 2005: "What better way to join our friends in the U.S. in their Thanksgiving celebrations than by giving thanks for the driving force behind DLIST." She notes Michael Gorman practices self-archiving in dLIST; she asks Coleman to elaborate on the Ranganathan connection (the dLIST Classics project was the answer); and she encourages librarians to self-archive. A 2005 snapshot of dLIST's place in the international open access community.

Coleman, A.S. DBLP Computer Science Bibliography. dblp.org → Wikidata: Q4765516 Registry

Coleman's publications indexed in DBLP — the authoritative computer science bibliography hosted by Schloss Dagstuhl — with ORCID and Wikidata authority control. Confirms that dLIST's technical work (OAI-PMH, federated searching, digital libraries) is indexed in the CS literature, not only in LIS. Also indexes the 2006 ASIST panel "Competing Information Realities" — Coleman and Eschenfelder on institutional vs. disciplinary repositories — with full DOI. GRA task: verify all DBLP entries against bibliography; check for missing publications including Library Trends 2022/2023 papers.