During the May 2010 session of CNI Conversations, CNI Executive Director Clifford Lynch discusses a recent meeting on computer forensics and cultural heritage, as well as a symposium at the University of North Texas dealing with a campus policy on open access. Cliff also talks about the Sage Bionetworks Congress held in April 2010, to establish the foundation for the new public domain resource, the Sage Commons.
Associate Director Joan Lippincott provides an overview of her talk at the upcoming Electronic Theses and Dissertations conference (Austin, TX, June 2010), in which she will speak on how library and IT units can better support students at the thesis or dissertation stage. Questions were asked about the Center for Studies in Higher Education meeting on peer review, and the data management plan recently mandated by the National Science Foundation as part of grants.