Tim Stephen

Ph.D., Bowling Green State University
Professor
Director of Graduate Studies

Office: SS 335
Phone: Please see my CIOS homepage for all contact details (Link below)
Fax: (518) 442-3884
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Home Page: http://www.cios.org/stephen/newindex.htm.

Timothy Stephen is a professor in the Department of Communication at the University at Albany (SUNY) and president of the Communication Institute for Online Scholarship. In his work with the CIOS he has directed the development of an electronic center providing archives of scholarly resources and other services for students and scholars in the field of human communication.

Professor Stephen has served on the editorial boards of many scholarly serials and has published in several focus areas during his career. These include the theory of communication in intimate interaction, research methodology and tests and measures, the history of interpersonal relationships, and the electronic revolution in higher education and scholarly communication. His current research focuses on studies of scholarly communication in the communication field, studies of productivity patterns in the field, innovation in the computer-assisted analysis of textual data, and the development of new electronic tools for scholarship.

Professor Stephen is the originator of Academic Serials in Communication - Unified System (ASCUS), a SPARC "Scientific Communities" effort to increase the global reach of the literature of the communication field by creating less expensive access. With Teresa Harrison, he is co-creator of the Electronic Journal of Communication, one of the world's earliest peer reviewed electronic scholarly journals, and of the CIOS itself.