I am an information scientist; my areas of specialization are Scholarly Communication (especially propagation of knowledge and anomalous scholarly literature), Information Policy (especially Information Security), and Informatics (bioinformatics and health informatics). My research focuses on scholarly communication and the use of health sciences & biomedical literature; I study the self-correcting attributes of science, the integrity of the scientific record and the changes that open access is having on the nature and use of health information. Health literacy and open access to scientific and health information can improve lives by reducing health information disparities. It is important to understand how to make high-quality information accessible to those who can benefit most from it. My work lies at the intersection of health sciences, biomedical literature, and the information society, particularly evaluating the self-correcting properties of science through measuring the impact of errors in the scientific record.