CNI News

The UK Research Information Network (RIN) has released "Collaborative yet Independent: Information Practices in the Physical Sciences", the third in its series of reports covering information practices in scholarly disciplines  (earlier reports have … [Read more...]

The U.S National Academies Board on Research Data and Information (BRDI) is having its next meeting on January 31-February 1, 2012 in Washington DC. The great majority of the meeting is open (with pre-registration) and will be of interest to those … [Read more...]

In the latest CNI Conversations podcast (https://www.cni.org/conversations/) CNI Director Clifford Lynch provides a round-up of reports and events related to large datasets, identity, and new digital scholarship.  Associate Director Joan Lippincott … [Read more...]

Five New Paradigms for Science and Academia and an Introduction to DataONE, the closing plenary from CNI's fall 2011 membership meeting by William Michener, professor & director of e-Science Initiatives for University Libraries, University of New … [Read more...]

This year at the American Library Association (ALA) midwinter conference in Dallas, TX,  CNI Associate Executive Director Joan Lippincott will participate in the discussion forum Let's Talk Trends:  A Discussion of Higher Education Trends That Influence … [Read more...]

The Spring 2012 CNI Membership Meeting will be held on April 2-3 (Monday and Tuesday) at the Sheraton Inner Harbor Hotel in Baltimore, MD.  Registration materials will be sent by the end of this month to designated member representatives.  Please note that … [Read more...]

Big Data Becomes Fashionable, Mobile Devices Reshape the Information Ecology:  CNI’s View on 2011 and 2012, the opening plenary from CNI's fall 2011 membership meeting by director Clifford Lynch, is now available on CNI's two video channels: on … [Read more...]

CNI is an official endorser of this conference. ------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 12th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2012) June 10–14, 2012 Washington, DC, USA Hosted by The … [Read more...]

CNI Director Cliff Lynch discusses how the consumerization of information technology is affecting library and teaching organizations in this new video offering from EDUCAUSE, currently featured on CNI's home page, www.cni.org.  The video is also available … [Read more...]

In their contribution to the New Years festivities, I've just recieved an announcement from NSF that the National Science Board has now issued a report (dated December 14, 2011) from their Task Force on Data Policies titiled "Digital Research Data Sharing … [Read more...]