Dan Coughlin

Head of Libraries Strategic Technologies
Associate Librarian

Office Address

E1 Paterno
Departmental Phone
814-865-2378 (department)
dmc186@psu.edu

Education History

Ph D, Information Sciences & Technology - Pennsylvania State University - 2015
MS, Computers & Information Technology - University of Pennsylvania - 2004
BA, Telecommunications - Pennsylvania State University - 1999

Research Interests

Electronic resources, information science, discovery, access.

Teaching Interests

Software Engineering System Architecture, Web Development

Publications

Cited by: automating citation counts for monographs using Google Scholar, Library Hi Tech News, 2023

From project to platform: a case study on evolving the software development team, Library Management, 2023

Supporting open access, integrating distributed research platforms, and building a researching information management platform, The Code4Lib Journal, 2022

Balancing Community and Local Needs Releasing, Maintaining, and Rearchitecting the Institutional Repository, Information Technology and Libraries, 2022

Predicting downloads of acadamic articles to inform online content management, 2015

Measuring the value of library content collections, Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2013

Measuring the value of library content collections, Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting, 2013

Advances in data representation for hard/soft information fusion, Proceedings of SPIE 2012, 2012

A web analytics approach for appraising electronic resources in academic libraries, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 2016

Modeling journal bibliometrics to predict downloads and inform purchase decisions at university research libraries, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 2016

Building a community of curatorial practice at penn state: A case study, Journal of Digital Information, 2012

Other Publications

Chapters

Diversity in Libraries IT: A Cohort Case Study, Creating an Inclusive Library: Approaches for Increasing Outreach, Engagement, and Use with BIPOC Students., 2024

KPI Case Study at the Pennsylvania State University, Libraries and Key Performance Indicators: A Framework for Practitioners, 2017

Others

A Framework For Evaluating Electronic Resources, 2015