About

Bruce Herbert is a professor in the Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communications at Texas A&M University. His role involves engaging in academic activities related to agricultural leadership and education, contributing to the department's mission of developing future leaders in agriculture. He is associated with the Dr. Chris and Dr. Joe Townsend ’67 Chair in Leadership Education and Student Excellence, indicating a focus on leadership development and student success within the agricultural sector. His work supports various degree programs, including undergraduate and graduate studies in agricultural communications, journalism, education, leadership, and development, as well as youth development. Herbert's position involves academic advising, research, extension activities, and participation in departmental initiatives aimed at advancing agricultural leadership and education.

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Political Science
• Sociology
• Pedagogy
• Library science
• Data Mining
• Public relations
• Social psychology
• Medicine
• World Wide Web
• Virology
• Knowledge management
• Psychology

Selected publications

• Research Information Management (RIM)/Current Research Information (CRIS) Systems for Research Organizations: A Project Brief from the Open-Source VIVO Community

  euroCRIS DSpace CRIS digital repository (The International Organisation for Research Information) · 2023-06-30

  paratextOpen access

  The use of Research Information Management (RIM) or Current Research Information Systems (CRIS) can significantly enhance the efficiency and innovation capacity of research organizations. RIM/CRIS systems aggregate, curate, and utilize diverse data on institutional research activities, enabling the strategic utilization of data for decision-making. VIVO is an open-source RIM/CRIS system that enables the recording, editing, searching, browsing, and visualizing of scholarly activity using linked open data. VIVO is customizable and supports additional domains of scholarly activity. The VIVO community is actively engaged in developing and evolving the system to expand its usability and utility through internationalization, multilanguage capabilities, installation of new versions, and API improvements. As an open-source RIM/CRIS system, VIVO is customizable to suit the unique use cases of an institution. Institutions own and control their data, enabling them to manage their privacy or security needs. Moreover, VIVO supports the move towards open science practices as an open, semantic system. Different use cases with different approaches using VIVO are shown, which can serve, among others, as showcasing, research collaboration, data visualization & impact and researchers & research assessment and evaluation.

  PublisherOA PDFDOI

• Reducing Embodied Carbon by Using Fibre Reinforced Polymers (FRP) Rather Than Steel

  2023-10-02

  article

  Abstract In recent years embodied carbon has become an important consideration when designing and specifying new builds and refurbishments in the oil and gas industry. Fibre Reinforced Polymer (FRP) structural products and Glass Reinforced Epoxy (GRE) pipes have been used for a number of years due to their light weight and corrosion resistant properties, but these properties also have the effect of reducing the embodied carbon of the products over their life span. Reduced transport weight, reduced maintenance and longer lifespan are all contributing factors. By taking the examples of traditionally steel products and their FRP equivalents this paper aims to quantify the potential savings. The comparison for structural products focuses on Multi-Angle Rapid Railing System (MARRS™) offshore handrails manufactured with FRP profiles and fittings (MARRS FRP handrails) vs. Galvanized Steel Handrails. For GRE pipes, a typical 12-in. pipe is compared against steel alternatives. This study uses baseline scenarios to calculate the main life cycle impacts and scenario-based analysis to account for the maintenance and repair opportunities that the products allow for. Global warming potential is the impact category analyzed in the study. A typical MARRS handrails installation could be 4,000 linear meters, meaning the embodied carbon for the steel handrail could be as high as 5,500 tonnes of CO2e, while the MARRS equivalent will be less than 200 tonnes of CO2e, a saving of over 96%. The use of GRE pipes in place of traditional CS pipes produces at least 60% savings over 20 years, with further savings from the embodied carbon used in work required to install replacement pipes due to corrosion.

  PublisherDOI

• Operationalizing Centerness and Measuring It in Professional Development Teams

  Journal of Educational Research and Practice · 2022-11-01

  articleOpen accessSenior author

  Centerness is defined as a quality of multi-agent systems (groups) where agents share a common set of system goals and interact so the system will achieve those goals. A pair of measures is identified to capture the two dimensions of centerness: distance-weighted fragmentation and average goal centerness. As a case study, the measures of centerness are applied to six teacher professional development groups within the Information Technology in Science Center for Teaching and Learning. The calculated measures of centerness of these groups generally conform to the expectations. Insights on using this measure of centerness to evaluate centerness in other professional development programs are included.

  PublisherOA PDFDOI

• OASES: The role of subject librarians in an effective campus OER program

  The Journal of Academic Librarianship · 2022 · 4 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding
  • Computer Science
  • Sociology
  • Library science
  PublisherDOI

• Motivations and barriers in the adoption of OERs: The role of subject librarians

  The Journal of Academic Librarianship · 2022 · 11 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding
  • Sociology
  • Political Science
  • Computer Science
  PublisherDOI

• A Consortium Approach to Library Publishing Via Open Journal Systems and the Texas Digital Library

  2022-01-01

  otherSenior author
  PublisherDOI

• A VIVO Community Update: Reflections on the Last Year and Where We Are Headed

  OakTrust (Texas A&M University Libraries) · 2021-07-06

  articleOpen access1st authorCorresponding

  Extended abstract presented at the CRIS2022 conference in Dubrovnik.-- Event programme available at https://cris2022.srce.hr/#section-program

  PublisherDOI

• Responding to Faculty Interest in Rapid Publishing During the Pandemic: The Role of interoperable Scholarly Communication Systems at Texas A&M.

  OakTrust (Texas A&M University Libraries) · 2021-05-14

  articleOpen access1st authorCorresponding
  PublisherDOI

• Texas Digital Library Guidebook: Setting Up an Open Access Journal Using Open Journal Systems

  2021-09-01

  article
  Publisher

• Scholars@TAMU: A Continuously Evolving Ecosystem Based on Campus Needs for Interdisciplinary Research and Academic Reputation

  OakTrust (Texas A&M University Libraries) · 2021-01-01

  articleOpen access

  The Scholars@TAMU team at Texas A&M University (TAMU) Libraries has been using VIVO in production since 2015. The main goal of our project is enhance the research and academic reputation of TAMU and support the ability of faculty/colleges to craft rich narratives of the significance and impact of their work. Realizing that the base VIVO installation did not meet our diverse campus needs, we began to build customizations, and developed creative solutions. This effort prompted the development and release of an upgraded version (v2) of Scholars@TAMU with a new user interface, along with additional data, integration with other TAMU and external systems, and an API, allowing for easy data reusability. Alongside the technical efforts, we continued outreach activities to increase campus engagement, assisting faculty, researchers, departments and administration with generating reports based on Scholars@TAMU data. This presentation will provide a brief history of Scholars@TAMU and the current state of our researcher information management (RIM) system.

  PublisherDOI

Recent grants

• The Professional Learning Community Model for Alternative Pathways in Teaching Science and Mathematics (PLC-MAP)

  NSF · $3.1M · 2004–2011

Frequent coauthors

• Patrick Louchouarn

  The Ohio State University

  14 shared

• Lauren N. Holder

  Texas A&M University

  13 shared

• Hye Jeong Kim

  Dong-A University

  11 shared

• C. T. Markley

  Golder Associates (United Kingdom)

  11 shared

• Dong Joon Lee

  Texas A&M University

  11 shared

• Heather Miller

  Carnegie Mellon University

  10 shared

• Mary McDougal

  Mitchell Institute

  9 shared

• Li‐Jung Kuo

  9 shared