Research Interests:

• intellectual property
• digital rights management
• open access/open data
• academic libraries
• social informatics
• information policy

Courses taught:

• INSC 520 Information Organization and Representation
• INSC 512 Information Organization and Retrieval
• INSC 534 Government Information Sources
• INSC 597 Information Architecture
• INSC 565 Digital Libraries

My favorite thing about working at SIS is:

To talk to my students, who never cease to inspire me.

Professional Memberships:

• ALA
• ALISE
• ASIST
• AALL

Select Publications:

• Zhu, X. (2019). Innovation in search of a context: The early history of Lexis. Information and Culture: A Journal of History, 54(2), 220-242.
• Zhu, X., & Freeman, M. A. (2019). An evaluation of U.S. municipal open data portals: A user interaction framework. Journal of Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 70(1), 27-37.
• Zhu, X. (2017). The failure of an early episode in the open government data movement: A historical case study. Government Information Quarterly, 34(2), 256-269.
• Zhu, X. (2016). Driven adaptation: A grounded theory study on licensing electronic resources. Library & Information Science Research, 38(1), 69-80.
• Zhu, X., & Cho, M. (2018). The end of ownership?: An investigation of users’ preferences and perceptions of ownership configurations. Proceedings of the 81st ASIS&T Annual Meeting (634-643), Vancouver, BC, Canada, November 10—14, 2018.