CNI News

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...]

The Berkeley Center for Law and Technology at the University of California, Berkeley is hosting a major symposium on March 12-13 to explore paths foward on the orphan works problem, particularly in light of the apparent failure of the Google Books … [Read more...]

A few weeks ago I shared information on two calls from the US Office of Science and Technology Policy one for  public comment on issues related to public access to articles produced as part of federally funded research, and the other dealing with a range … [Read more...]

Audio recordings and powerpoints from the sessions at the October 13-14, 2011 ARL-CNI Wahsington DC Symposium on 21st Century Collections are now available at http://www.arl.org/resources/pubs/fallforumproceedings/forum11.shtml There's a wealth of … [Read more...]

The European Science Foundation's Standing Committee on the Humanities  has just issued a policy brief on Research Infrastructure in the Digital Humanities which offers an excellent survey of many large-scale European digital humanities efforts. Further … [Read more...]

A Guide to the Fall 2011 Coalition for Networked Information Membership Meeting The Fall 2011 CNI Membership Meeting, to be held at the Crystal Gateway Marriott Hotel in Arlington, Virginia on December 12 and 13, offers a wide range of presentations that … [Read more...]

The December 2, 2011 issue of Science Magazine has a series of interesting articles about the reproducibility and replicability of results in scientific research, an important driver in many of the current conversations about data management and curation … [Read more...]

Last fall, I shared with the CNI-announce community a call for short papers issued by the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Directorate of the US National Science Foundation as part of an unusual  effort to identify new research opportunities in the … [Read more...]