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Anita Coleman

Anita S. Coleman is the publisher of Infophilia: A Positive Psychology of Information, a weekly publication and lab developing adaptive infophilia, her integrative theory for unifying library and information sciences. From 2015–2025 she led the Anti Racism Digital Library and the International Anti Racism Thesaurus and earlier worked in technology related change management as a librarian (Rancho Santiago), researcher (UCLA, UC Santa Barbara), and LIS faculty (University of Arizona, Tucson). Born in Tamil-Nadu, India, her credentials include an M.L.I.S. from the University of Madras (Dept. of LIS founded by S.R. Ranganathan), an M.S.Ed. in Curriculum & Instruction and Educational Technology from Southern Illinois University Carbondale, and a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. She founded dLIST (Digital Library of Information Science and Technology), the first interdisciplinary open access repository in the field. Named a 2007 “Mover and Shaker” by Library Journal, Coleman has served as an NSF grants reviewer and held roles with ACM, ALA, ASIS&T, ATLA, ISKO, and the Learning Resources Association of the California Community Colleges. Her research on bibliometrics, digital libraries, metadata, evaluation, information behaviors, HCI, EDIA has appeared in venues including JASIST, Journal of Documentation, Knowledge Organization, D Lib Magazine, and Theological Librarianship.
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AI-Powered Peer Review: How Review Reveal Can Detect Bias, Improve Fairness, and Transform Scholarly Publishing

by Anita Coleman October 16, 2025 0

When a harsh peer review exposed systemic bias, the author drew on established and emerging research to envision AI‑powered Review Reveal: a tool that flags exclusionary... Read more.